Jackson, MS - The City That Can't Provide Its' People w/Drinkable Water

[Webster]

@DrLeftover, as bad as corruption in Chicago can be at times, the South has its own center of corruption....Jackson, Mississippi.

Last August, a flood took out the aging water system in Jackson, Mississippi, leaving nearly everyone in the City without water. Only a few months later, arctic weather broke so many pipes in the city that residents again lost access to water, some for nearly two weeks, continuing one of the worst water crises in American history.

 

[DrLeftover]

Drinking water is only part of the problem.

Wingate also peppered Henifin with questions about the city’s struggling sewer system. Wingate said he plans to put the sewer system under Henifin’s control as well.

On a tour of Jackson with Henifin in March, Wingate said he observed raw sewage bubbling up from the ground, including near a facility housing senior citizens.

Henifin said the city’s sewage line repair trucks were unavailable because the city had yet to pay a repair shop for servicing the vehicles, Wingate said.

Wingate said he offered to pay the bill himself.

“I’ll just pay the cost and live off peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,” Wingate said.

Henifin told him there were over 250 spots throughout the city where raw sewage was bubbling up through the ground.

“I don’t have enough peanut butter and jelly for that,” Wingate said.

The water in Mississippi's capital is safe to drink, city officials say

U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate ordered Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and water manager Ted Henifin to appear in court Wednesday because of comments Lumumba made at a June 14 news conference.

www.pbs.org

And that's without even mentioning the traffic trying to get on and off 55