Posted on 08/30/2022 12:41:33 PM PDT by 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.”
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i have a well
The song refers to Jackson, Tennessee, not Jackson, Mississippi. Sorry!
Lets ask Devonte or Lashika
Now just a minute. They are called Mississippi because they are near what humungous river? And they have a water shortage?
Tate Reeves is a Republican in his first term, elected 2019.
Democrat party run city?
Aren't all large cities?
#14 Chokwe Antar Lumumba.....
Never elect someone with 3 names or 3 names you cannot pronounce.
That name looks like a Scrabble board tiles before you organize them.
An ‘activist’ but obviously not active enough in getting ahead of his city’s problems.
Thank you, I didn’t know that.
That condo collapse in Florida and the freeway bridge collapse in Minneapolis both come to mind.
The only way an American would get the name "Lumumba" is by taking it in honor of Patrice Lemumba, an assassinated Leftist head of state from the Congo as it was going through independence. Lemumba was definitely a Leftist--and everyone who talks about him with a straight face here is a Communist.
Over the decades, many pro-Communist American terrorists have been to the school to be taught how to take over a state through Marxist methods--and in some cases, how to organize and carry out terrorist bombings and assassinations.
Gov. Tate Reeves is a weak leader and a failure. News flash: Numerous hydrology students, ages 20-23, can fix the water problems in Memphis. Just ask them.
How long have Democrats been in charge of the city?
Didn’t the good citizens of Jack pay their water bills so maintenance could keep the system operating correctly? Maybe the pols pocketed the money so nothing has been done to maintain the system for years.
stories like this make me happy I have a private well, and private septic system, backup generator to run the well (among other things), 150+ acres of forestland to cut firewood, and a wood boiler and wood stove.
The S may hit the fan around me, but unless I will be able to heat my house, drink my water and flush my toilets for quite a while after most folks - just would need to scrounge enough fuel to keep the generator running in an extended failure - oh yea, and I live at 1500’ elevation - no chance of flooding.
Ooops, left out what the "school" is: Patrice Lumumba University in Russia, created under the Soviets to train students from Third World countries with ambitions to be in diplomacy or government to love Communism and bring the Soviets to their countries to manipulate their politics and become their military allies and useful idiots.
Countless US terrorists have been through the school--including the Weathermen--and reportedly learned spy procedures and bomb-making methods there.
What is the evac plan?
It is no longer a viable city.
Noooo, it’s something besides just Democrat. I wonder what it is... hmmmm.
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