In what Time magazine is calling a “crisis decades in the making,” 180,000 residents in Jackson, Mississippi lack access to reliable drinking water for the near future as the city’s primary water treatment facility failed in late August.
In an emergency declaration, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said residents of the capital city would be without “reliable running water at scale” for an indefinite period of time and that there isn’t enough water to flush toilets or fight fires.Inadequate water infrastructure funding has led to ongoing issues at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, and recent flooding of a nearby river exacerbated those issues.
News Briefs: Jackson Is Without Reliable Water Indefinitely After Treatment Plant Failure
Also in this week's sewer and water news, Green Bay (Wisconsin) Public Works cleans out 1,200 feet of sewer pipe and finds so-called “flushable wipes” clogging two of the city’s pumps
