‘We Don’t Have Air Conditioning. We Can’t Use Toilets’: Flood-Induced Jackson, Mississippi, Water Crisis Leaves Thousands with Nothing to Drink, Officials at Local, State, Federal Levels Scrambling to Fix a Problem Years In the Making
Officials on federal, state, and local levels are responding to the collapse of the municipal water delivery system in Jackson, Mississippi, the state’s capital and largest city. An aging water system that had suffered from decades of benign neglect as the 80 percent African-American city’s tax base shrank and state contributions for repairs dried up…
