FEMA Declines To Forecast End To Jackson Water Crisis

Reuters reports:

It is too early to say when a water treatment plant in Mississippi’s state capital of Jackson that failed last week leaving tens of thousands of people without clean tap water can be fixed, the head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said on Sunday.

Complications from recent floodwaters knocked Jackson’s O.B. Curtis Water Plant offline on Monday night, leaving most of the state capital without safe running water and highlighting the problem of America’s crumbling infrastructure, which Biden’s administration has vowed to address.

The crisis has hobbled Jackson, forcing many stores and restaurants shut, while the public school system and Jackson State University had to move classes online.

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