Jackson water crisis flows from a century of poverty, neglect and racism

More than a century before failing infrastructure left Jackson, Mississippi, without running water this summer, thousands of the capital city's residents gathered in a park downtown to celebrate the new water filtration plant that promised to turn the muddy liquid flowing into people’s taps into “clean, pure water.”

Resolving Jackson’s water woes rests on a plan, funding, and being ready ‘to pull the trigger’

The number one thing the city of Jackson needs to do to solve its water crisis?

Hire the right experts to develop a first-class plan so the city can get all the funding it needs to repair its crumbling system, said Rengao Song, a water quality and treatment expert who works as an adviser to the Louisville, Kentucky, city water system.

Jackson water plant still ‘a couple years’ from winter protection

Nearly one year ago, thousands of residents in Mississippi’s capital city without water for weeks when a winter storm shut down the city of Jackson’s main water treatment plant.