The Environmental Protection Agency has launched a review of the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, which left thousands of residents without water for days, an official confirmed to CBS News Saturday. Jennifer Kaplan, spokesperson for the EPA's Office of Inspector General (OIG), told CBS ...
skip to main content the jackson water crisis is a public health failure rooted in systemic racism residents have been forced to boil their water for more than a month. mark felix/getty images save this story save this story residents of jackson, mississippi, started boiling their water when,...
through political starvation. That’s what Donna Ladd of The Jackson Free Presswroteabout Jackson’s water crisis last year. Racist power brokers, she said, tried to destroy Black Mississippi by “withholding the financial resources necessary for ...
City of Jackson councilman and State Representative De'Keither Stamps pours potable water into an ice chest and empty jugs as a resident watches in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon, February 22, 2021.Rogelio V. Solis / AP In addition to boiling water during the crisis, residents are...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In a federal complaint Tuesday, the NAACP said Mississippi officials “all but assured” a drinking water calamity in Jackson by depriving the state’s majority-Black capital city of badly needed funds to upgrade its infrastructure
Water crisis in Mississippi capital developed during failures in oversight, watchdog says A watchdog group says “layers of inadequate oversight and enforcement” by state and federal agencies contributed to a water crisis in Mississippi’s capital city. August 16 Jackson Zoo turns away visitors ...
The governor and Mississippi Emergency Management Agency director Stephen McCraney promised that the state would look for long-term solutions to the city’s water problems. The water crisis affects the city's 150,000 residents — many of whom have been unable to take showers or flush toilets ...
The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has recently made national and international headlines as a major environmental catastrophe, impacting the public health and wellbeing of residents. Here we focus on Jackson's most prevalent and vulnerable population, its children, by assessing how boil water...
The boil-water advisory in Jackson, Mississippi, has been lifted for all those who rely on the water system, Gov. Tate Reeves said at a Thursday news conference.
Jackson, Mississippi water shortage hurts local restaurants BRAVO! Italian Restaurant manager Tanya Burns shares what restaurants and locals in the community are facing as Jackson, Miss. water shortage continues. As the city of Jackson, Mississippi battles an ongoing water crisis, many in ...