Monday, March 15, 2021

MISSISSIPPI - The Drinking Water Crisis

"Water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi highlights ‘dire state’ of city’s infrastructurePBS NewsHour 3/9/2021

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  Much of Mississippi's largest city is beginning its fourth week without safe drinking water coming out of faucets.  Jackson residents, about 80 percent of whom are Black, remain under a system-wide order to boil water, and some don't have any running water at all.  Since a mid-February storm, the city has had about 80 water main breaks.  Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba joins John Yang to discuss.



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