Jackson, Mississippi, residents told to shower with mouths closed as water treatment plant repairs

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continue on Day 4 of water shortage

As Mississippi’s capital city entered a fourth day Thursday with little or no water flowing from faucets, authorities are scrambling to get a failing water treatment plant plagued by decades of deferred maintenance back online.

The problem – which comes on top of a boil-water notice in effect more than a month – has upended life in the city of roughly 150,000 residents, where schools were shuttered this week, businesses are forced to adapt and people have had to wait in long lines for bottled water they can use to drink, cook or brush their teeth.

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is optimistic the water can be restored to residents this week, he told CNN Wednesday. “But there is a huge mountain to climb in order to achieve that,” he added.

The problem came to a head Monday, when river flooding nudged an already-damaged main treatment plant to failure, meaning Jackson’s faucets deliver barely – if any – water. In some cases, the water has been brown.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jackson-residents-are-told-to-shower-with-their-mouths-closed-as-water-quality-issues-continue-to-plague-mississippi-s-capital/ar-AA11ls5P

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1. Welcome to the Republican run shithole state of Mississippi

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2. 'he' called other countries $hit-hole. See now? Compliments of repuglycons.

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3. We were told that in China. The difference is, we were told

before we got there, not four days later.

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4. The Republican way!!! What grotesque creatures of human waste. n/t