Posted on 01/30/2023 7:51:04 AM PST by Towed_Jumper
Organizations in Jackson, Mississippi, are asking for help from other states as the water crisis dries up resources.
It’s been over five months since the Pearl River crested and Jackson, Mississippi’s water system failed. Now, crews are working to replace the pipe system, but families and businesses are prepared to go without water periodically, for up to 10 years.
Cities across the country are replacing fragile water pipe systems. Besides Jackson, there's Flint, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, and Houston, Texas.
The systems are replaced section-by-section after failure. But, these years-long projects can cause water main breaks.
Kenneth Wayne Jones serves as Hinds County Administrator, which includes Jackson. He said their water crisis was decades in the making and the situation will get worse before things become better.
"Every move you make to try to alleviate this problem causes pressure to go in another direction. And, when it gets to one direction, there are old pipes, or, the water main breaks. And, when the water mains start to break, it shifts pressure everywhere. It’s especially hard on our businesses," Jones said.
Jones said Jackson's longstanding water issue has caused years of economic decline.
Jackson has seen more than 10% of its residents leave in the past decade.
Our research shows over 6,000 out of nearly 9,000 businesses have left the city in that same time period.
Fredick Womack runs Operation Good. He said as national attention has shifted to other cities or issues, local organizations are feeling the strain and aren’t sure if their resources can sustain five to ten more years of water outages.
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Didn’t they recently get a few million or billion of Federal money to correct the problem? Maybe that is why the mayor has a new swimming pool.
I get that some municipalities may not follow GAAP guidelines. However, as elected stewards of the people's community infrastructure assets, it doesn't exempt them from following Generally Accepted Accounting Common Sense Principles. Those common sense principles state that all mechanical and infrastructure assets are gonna wear out at some point and you better be setting aside public money every year for when they do.
Two words: British Berkey
They may have sour water, but I’m sure the graft was sweet
Accounting is racist.
I am stunned you did not know that!
;-)
Yep. Elections have consequences
“Besides Jackson, there’s Flint, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, and Houston, Texas.”
What do those four s**t holes have in common with cities in Africa?
maybe SBF & FTX can get Ukraine to send jackson some bit coin?
That's about the same opinion with my one visit.
While there, I saw a mall with a 12 foot chainlink fence around it with armed guards at all entrances and exits.
Bingo! Construction is sexy. Construction gets lots of public attention, lots of votes, and therefor lots of money.
O&M is boring ...
“We don’t need no water let the ....”
If Jackson can identify as Ukrainian, they might get some money to fix this .
If anybody is interested in learning the D corruption that lead to this disaster detailed analysis is on the internet.
It is pretty staggering....and i imagine going on in MANY other cities..
According the Wikipedia, Bangui, CAR receives about 60” of rain per year. Jackson, MS receives about 57” per year of rain. With a little investment and some basic plumbing skills, folks in Jackson could install rain barrels to collect the rain coming off of their roofs, then boil and/or filter their drinking water through their Berkey water filters.
We’ve own a Berkey water filter for years and it works great for when the power goes out on the water well pump or when we go camping to filter water.
“Necessity is the mother of invention” and all that.
Agreed, until your tap water starts coming out looking like this:
Maybe it's just me but I always thought "Civilization 101" meant people paying attention to boring stuff like bringing clean running water into your house and making sure the filthy, dirty water gets removed.
BTW, the above pic is from Compton, California -another Democratic Party-run sh*thole.
When the Mayor is clearly named after a socialist Congolese politician enshrined as a ‘university’ used to train Soviet agents, and the city has a voting population willing to make that happen, all bets are off.
And that's the point ... If proper attention is paid to O&M, the tap never delivers sewage. But O&M isn't "sexy", it doesn't easily get attention, votes, and money. It only gets proper attention if the upper management is composed of truly competent engineers.
In democRAT run cities, upper management consists of affirmative action employees and politicians.
Therefore, sewage.
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