A Louisiana tribe under threat from flooding, storms and rising seas will receive a federal grant aimed at helping Native American communities adapt to climate change or move to safer ground.
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Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said that extensive testing of Jackson's beleaguered water system revealed a tiny portion of the city had lead in its water, but smaller-scale independent testing by the Clarion Ledger and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting suggests that elevated lead results could be more widespread.
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The Clarion Ledger and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting teamed together to commission an investigation of the City of Jackson's water.
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What do these Mississippi counties have in common? Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Covington, Franklin, Greene, Issaquena, Jasper ,Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Monroe, Montgomery, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Panola, Quitman, Scott, Sharkey, Smith Tippah, Webster, Wilkinson and Yazoo?
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When two winter storms struck the city of Jackson last year, it wasn’t the snow. It wasn’t the ice. It was the water.
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Four of the state’s larger cities – Jackson, Hattiesburg, Meridian and Greenville – are all under federal consent decrees to stop pollution from their worn down sewer and wastewater systems.
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A year after winter storms ripped through Jackson and caused a monthlong water outage for residents, officials say there’s a chance the city’s water system could fail again.
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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.
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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.
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The 1990s saw a dramatic change in Jackson's racial makeup. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, nearly 35,000 white residents fled the city from 1990 to 2000. The white population dropped dramatically while the Black population continued to rise.
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Nearly a hundred years ago, Jackson's leaders were just as concerned about its water infrastructure as they are today, but for different reasons.
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Sometime around 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 5, the mayor of Byram got a phone call.
It was Public Works Director Bill Miley, calling to tell him a water main had burst. Again. Some people would be without water, and those that had water would need to boil it before drinking, an all too common event.
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