After going months without clean drinking water, residents in Compton and Willowbrook are getting their water supply from a different source, reported KABC.

Residents complained for months about having dirty tap water. Now crews are months into working to restore clean water to the old Sativa Water District.

Nearly 7,000 customers had brown water with a foul odor. Though the water had been deemed safe to drink, many didn’t take that chance.

One user on YouTube commented about his elderly father having to buy bottled water because he disputed caims that the water was safe to use.

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“My dad is almost 90 years old and he has to deal with this on a daily basis. The water is not drinkable, You can’t bathe with it or cook with it. How can this be happening in our country. He has to buy bottled water and is on a fixed income. I am mad as hell that he and so many others that live there have to live as if they are in a third world country. Come on, somebody has to fix this,” he wrote.

Engineers cited manganese from old pipes and the system’s wells as part of the problem. While some leftover brown water can still be seen when the system is flushed out, residents are grateful the problem is finally being addressed.

“They are working very hard with the community so that they can have clean water,” resident Elizabeth Hicks told KABC. Work is slated to be complete Sept. 15.