A historic flood was just the start of an unimaginable crisis.
Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba discusses the latest on this ongoing crisis.On August 29, a historic amount of rain flooded the Pearl River, which runs through the city. But the flood itself was just the start of an unimaginable crisis. The storm destroyed the city's main water treatment plant, where pumps had already failed in late July, forcing a boil water advisory.
"I’ve been lifting this challenge – not only locally but nationally – saying that it's not a matter of if our systems will fail, but when our system will fail," he said.
"We do have a state agency along with us at this time, and we do have the federal government, and so we want to make the best of it," Lumumba said.4,500 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS HELP DISTRIBUTE WATER IN JACKSON AMID CRISIS IN MISSISSIPPI'S CAPITAL "It has been described as spaghetti in terms of feed systems that have a long way to travel at the facility grounds," he said.
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