“Water is the most intimate relationship you have with the government … when the water is of poor quality or, in your case, just not delivered, it’s a profound betrayal of trust.' Why Jackson’s water system is broken (March 2021):
by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today March 24, 2021 Janna Avalon, a 72-year-old retired newspaper editor, lived out the mid-February ice storm and weeks-long water outage just feet from South Jackson’s empty water tower. The one million-gallon tank, one of several across the city, is meant to store water at a high elevation, utilizing gravity to pressurize the delivery system, especially during service interruptions. But contingency plans are a myth in a system as chronically broken as Jackson’s.
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