The long-plagued water system in Jackson, Mississippi has effectively collapsed, leaving more than 150,000 residents of the majority Black city without clean municipal water, and some without enough water pressure to flush their toilets.
The more than 150,000 residents of Jackson, Mississippi no longer have access to clean municipal drinking water, and in some parts of the city, there isn’t enough water pressure to flush toilets or supply fire hydrants. The city’s long-neglected water system effectively collapsed on Monday after days of torrential rain overwhelmed Jackson’s largest water treatment plant, state officials said.
Jackson, which is both the state’s capital and most populous city, had already been under a boil-water notice for a month before the system fell apart this week, and it’s not clear when the crisis will be resolved, with state and city officials offering somewhat contradictory assessments about the problems.
