The White House says the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit Mississippi's capital city on Friday as local, state and federal officials deal with a water system crisis
APTOPIX Water Woes Mississippi
“It’s quite unnerving," Jackson resident Shirley Harrington said Thursday. “It’s like playing Russian roulette. You don’t know if you’re going to wake up with water, don’t know if you got water, don’t know what condition the water is in. There’s so many statements: ‘Do not drink,’ ‘Do not use,’ ‘You can use, but don’t drink,’ so you’re like, ‘What do I really do?’”
The governor and Mississippi Emergency Management Agency director Stephen McCraney promised that the state would look for long-term solutions to the city’s water problems. City communications director Melissa Payne said all of the water system's customers — 46,000 residential accounts and 6,000 commercial — were affected by low water pressure at some time during the crisis. The latest available figures from the city showed that 80% of the water system's customers had little or no water as of Wednesday morning. It was unclear how many had been substantially restored as of Thursday.
“We are doing everything we can to make sure we’re helping the people of Mississippi," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday. “We are in close touch.”
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