Excerpt from CNN Newsroom – After weeks under a boil water order, the governor of Mississippi said that the water in Jackson is now clean.
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Welcome Cassandra Welchlin, the Executive Director & Co-Convener of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable as we discuss the Jackson water crisis.
Excerpt from Afro News Article – Brown water coming out of a kitchen faucet in Jackson, Miss. is not new.
Neither is boiling water in order to drink it.
One resident- Cassandra Welchlin, executive director of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, told the AFRO that residents have become normalized to discolored water because multiple a few times a year the water comes out of the faucet brown.
Cassandra Welchlin, Executive Director of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable speaks with Susan Hendricks about the water issues which has plagued Jackson, MS for decades.
Excerpt from CBS News Streaming – Six hundred National Guard members have been deployed to Jackson, Mississippi, to help distribute water. Many in the city are still without reliable drinking water even though crews installed an emergency pump at the deteriorating water – treatment facility. CBS News correspondent Elise Preston spoke with residents about what they’re experiencing, and CBS News’ Debra Alfarone spoke with Cassandra Welchlin, executive director of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, about the crisis.
Excerpt from Today Article – A crumbling infrastructure, neglected water system and severe flooding has left more than 180,000 people living in Jackson, Mississippi without access to safe drinking water.
One mom of three is sharing how the crisis is impacting her and her family.
Residents of Jackson, Miss., are currently battling through a water crisis that one woman says “has been building for decades.” Having children at home makes it even more difficult.
Mom Brooke Floyd, 43, tells PEOPLE that many of her fellow Jackson residents are both “angry and frustrated” after being left without reliable running water for more than a month.
Excerpt from Today with Dr. Kaye – JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — People are waiting in lines for water in Jackson, Mississippi, after the partial failure of the the city water system.
Some homes and businesses have running water, but many do not. Flooding of the Pearl River worsened longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants.
Excerpt from Buzzfeed – Mississippi’s capital was struggling to keep the water flowing to more than 150,000 people on Tuesday after floods deepened ongoing problems with the city’s aging water system.
Mississippi and the city of Jackson have declared emergencies as they work to distribute water to residents and restore water pressure across the capital city. On Monday night, Gov. Tate Reeves announced that the city’s main water treatment facility had started to fail, and it was unclear when it would be fully operational again. Residents had already been told not to drink from their taps without first boiling it, but now they can’t even reliably access the potentially contaminated water.
Excerpt from CNN Newsroom – As Mississippi’s capital faces a third day without reliable water service Wednesday – pushing some residents to stand in long lines for bottled water and keeping schools and businesses closed – the mayor says he hopes water service can be restored this week.
The problem came to a head Monday, when river flooding nudged an already-hobbling main treatment plant to failure, meaning Jackson couldn’t necessarily produce enough water to flush toilets or even fight fires, officials say. The water system has been troubled for years and the city already was under a boil-water notice since late July.