Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has declared a local state of emergency after cold weather damaged the Mississippi capital's water system last week.
Clouds are reflected off the City of Jackson's O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Facility's sedimentation basins in Ridgeland, Miss., Sept. 2, 2022.Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba declared a local state of emergency Tuesday after cold weather damaged the Mississippi capital's water system last week.
"There is no way to prevent what is happening to our water treatment facilities," Lumumba said during a press conference Tuesday. "We do not control mother nature." "We continue to struggle to return pressure to the water system," officials said in a press release Monday. "We are producing significant amounts of water and pushing that into the system, but the pressure is not increasing -- despite those efforts at the plants."
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