Beyond addressing the immediate crisis, Biden said he wants to provide federal support for the long-term effort to rebuild Jackson’s aging water infrastructure, which has been unreliable for years. Lumumba said Jackson’s water system is troubled by short staffing and “decades of deferred mainten...
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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 ...
Businesses in the city are also closing amid the water problems. Barrelhouse, a restaurant, has been serving bottled water, but it's closing for good this weekend after one water crisis too many. "We no longer have the capital to weather these storms," said manager David Moncrief. "It's...
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MCKENNY: In North Jackson, depending on how the water crisis is that day, the school can either serve hot lunches or cold lunches. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Sometimes they have enough water to cook a full hot meal, and then other times they do not. Let's assume that today that there is...
Anna Wolfe, who has been covering the water crisis for the nonprofit news site Mississippi Today, said the city doesn't have the "built-in revenue" needed to maintain its water system. "We've got failing pumps. So that's the mechanism that actually pumps the water out of the reservoir,...
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The EPAannounced last monththat it had launched a review of the Jackson water crisis, which FEMA administrator Deanne Criswelldescribedto CBS News at the time as an "absolutely tragic situation." It prompted President Bidento issue a disaster declaration. ...
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said on a Sunday morning news show that the city is "a matter of days" away from water fit for consumption. Despite the gains, Lumumba said that Jackson is "still in an emergency." The city "will be in an emergency even as the water is restored to ...