Jackson

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Residents in Jackson, Mississippi, continue to be hit with boil water notices, water shortages and other water infrastructure problems that have lingered for decades. Over the last two years, Jackson residents have been hit with more problems that left them without clean water for weeks at a time. On Feb. […]

ABC News (JACKSON, Miss.) — In recent years, Jackson, Mississippi, has grappled with crisis after crisis with its water infrastructure. Historic flooding in late summer and freezing temperatures in December damaged the city’s water distribution system, leaving many residents without running water or under boil-water notices for weeks at a time. The Justice Department appointed […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — With crisis after crisis plaguing the water infrastructure in Jackson, Mississippi, the city government has, for months, included a message on its website’s water information page explaining where people can send private donation checks if they want to help. Yet despite issues ranging from a lack of water pressure […]

ilbusca/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba declared a local state of emergency Tuesday after cold weather damaged the Mississippi capital’s water system last week. Jackson — long plagued with water problems — issued a boil-water advisory on Christmas Day until further notice because of the broken system. Describing the situation as […]