An aging water main ruptured in Gloversville, causing many residents to go without water and forcing the city to issue a city-wide boil water advisory.

“By the time we woke up Tuesday morning, it was a lot more than a little river,” Kingsboro Avenue resident Stephanie Wilkinson said.

City officials say a more than 100-year-old water main line broke early Tuesday morning directly outside Wilkinson’s home.

“We looked at our Ring camera and saw that we had waterfront property,” she said.

Wilkinson and her family were some of the few who were still without water Wednesday evening.

“Obviously, a lot of bottled water. For toilets, we had to go out and get big gallon jugs,” she said. “We do the best we can.”

People who did have water were being encouraged to boil it before using. The break also forced school classes to be canceled again Wednesday.

“This is the first time in anyone’s memory that the entire city was without water,” Mayor Vincent DeSantis said.

Due to the age of local infrastructure, the city had to hire a Connecticut-based company to assist with repairs.

“When they tried to isolate the break and turn off the water coming to the affected area — what they call a gateway — it just fell apart,” DeSantis explained. “It exploded.”

The mayor anticipates there will be funding available in the coming years to replace some of the aging gateways.

“With this new infrastructure bill that has passed, we understand that money could be available to actually apply for replacement of older, aging infrastructure,” he said.

In the meantime, the Wilkinsons found workarounds, and time to give back to the crew working to restore their water supply.

The family organized a table with coffee and snacks.

“We just wanted to make sure that they knew, as a community, that we’re really appreciative of them being out here in the freezing cold,” Wilkinson said.