I’m from Mississippi. The federal and state governments have given Jackson untold millions of dollars to upgrade the water system over the years but the money keeps getting siphoned off into other projects or outright stolen. To be fair it’s not all Lumumba’s fault, though he’s certainly a part of it. Most of the city council are crooks too, it’s just a matter of which one can steal money the fastest. They are, predictably, mostly of the political party and race that you would likely guess. Throwing more money at it won’t work, it’s just dumping it down a pit of political corruption.