Water pressure continued to improve in Mississippi's capital city Friday as repairs continued at a long-troubled water plant, but some in the city of 150,000 still had little or no water flowing from taps. (Sept. 2)
Mississippi's capital city is restoring running water to some homes and businesses Thursday, but many faucets remain dry. (Sept. 1)
150,000 people in a Black-majority city are without clean water.
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It is now day four of the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis, and there doesn’t seem to be an immediate end in sight. While 600 Mississippi national guardsmen are set to be deployed today to help with water distribution, there is no timetable on when the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant water pumps will be fixed. Residents are being told that the cloudy water from their faucets is not consumable to drink or cook with, but they can use it to shower (as long as they don’t consume the water) and wa
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Water pressure slowly improved in Mississippi's capital city Friday but officials outlined numerous challenges and occasional setbacks as they worked to restore running water from the city's aging, neglected water system to all in the city of 150,000. A minor leak in an ammonia tank forced officials to cordon off a part of a water treatment plant late Thursday, Jim Craig, a state health official said Friday. Staffers at the plant are having to constantly account for changes in sediment and chemical levels in water taken into the system after recent torrential rains and flooding, Craig added.
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A new pump installed at the O.B. Curtis Water Plant is providing more water pressure.
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