Jackson water system is failing, city will be with no or little drinking water indefinitely

Mississippi Today ^ | 8/30/22

[EBH]

The drinking water system in Jackson — Mississippi’s largest city and home to more than 160,000 residents — is failing, state officials announced on Monday. Thousands of Jackson residents already have no or little water pressure, and officials cannot say when adequate, reliable service will be restored.

The city water system has been plagued with problems for years, including tens of thousands of residents losing water between one and three weeks during a 2021 winter storm.

At a press conference Monday night, Gov. Tate Reeves said the city’s largest water treatment plants may be completely down.

“The O.B. Curtis plant is not operating anywhere near full capacity,” Reeves said. “We may find out tomorrow it’s not operating at all. We’ll have better visibility on that when we get in there tomorrow.”

Reeves announced he would sign an emergency declaration for the capital city’s water system and create an “incident command center” to distribute water to the city’s residents beginning Tuesday morning.

“Until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale,” Reeves said. “It means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilets, and to meet other critical needs.”

[EBH]

They do not even have enough water pressure to flush toilets or fight fires.

[fwdude]

A city of 160,000?! Wow! That’s a large city to have these types of problems.

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s an Atlas Shrugged world now.

[dfwgator]

I wonder who the mayor there is?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How fast is the USA sinking to third-world sh!thole status?

[fwdude]

Is that a rhetorical question?

[PGR88]

Another $40 billion for Ukraine should do the trick

empire abroad always comes first.

[EBH]

Look this up on USA Today. Video reporting there and great explanation?

They are saying it is due to 30 years of deferred maintenance. (seriously!)

[Little Ray]

So, how long have they been neglecting the system and stealing its budget, I wonder?

[cgbg]

Yup—expect many tiny little failures that cascade into larger failures—while the “experts” cannot figure out what happened.

[dfwgator]

You could say that.

[bak3r]

Really about time to stop paying taxes.

[Travis McGee]

Ping

[BBQToadRibs2]

“I wonder who the mayor there is?”

From Wiki:
Chokwe Antar Lumumba (born March 29, 1983) is an American attorney, activist and politician serving as the 53rd[1] mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
Mayor since 7/2017
Political party Democratic

[ConservativeMind]

It sounds like the esteemed Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has some ‘splainin’ to do.

He’s making Jackson into a 3rd World sh—hole.

I wonder why.

[joma89]

We should expect more of this in the future and all over the place. The neglect, mostly done by democrats, to all aspects of our society including infrastructure is finally showing the results.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Failing infrastructure—it's a dark black day for Harare Jackson. Then again what day isn't?

[READINABLUESTATE]

Infrastructure is crumbling, inflation skyrocketing, riots in the streets, but we have diversity and inclusiveness so all is good.

Puppies and rainbows for everyone!

[Skywise]

The mayor since 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokwe_Antar_Lumumba

A vibrant progressive.

[fwdude]

Found it.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba

In case someone claims he inherited the problem, he has been in this seat since 2017.