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A public health crisis in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state. [1] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — “Layers of inadequate oversight and enforcement” by state and federal agencies contributed to a water crisis in Mississippi's capital city that left tens of thousands ...
Water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi developed during failures in oversight, watchdog says. Associated Press. August 16, 2024 at 9:44 AM. Tens of thousands of people were left without safe ...
Jackson, Mississippi's water supply is wholly unsafe to drink, officials said on Monday, with water pressure so low from long-failing treatment systems compounded by river flooding this week that ...
The National Guard and other groups distributed an estimated 12 million bottles of water during the crisis, ABC News reported. An SUV rests in flood waters in this northeast Jackson, Miss ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 877 square miles (2,270 km 2), of which 870 square miles (2,300 km 2) is land and 7.6 square miles (20 km 2) (0.9%) is water. [5] It is the third-largest county in Mississippi by land area and fifth-largest by total area.
Jackson’s already-frail water system suffered a dayslong outage over the summer, in a crisis that sparked national outrage and called attention to the decades of water struggles in the city of ...
Jackson, Mississippi, which had already experienced a water crisis in August 2022, had pipes break and water pressure problems, causing mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba to declare a state of emergency in addition to a boil water advisory the city had already issued. [196]