This is a word, a podcast from Slate.

I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

The lack of clean water in places like Flint, Michigan, and Jackson, Mississippi have made

national headlines.

But many black communities and the rural south are coping with a water crisis.

But they're not getting immediate attention or resources to really fight it.

What's happening?

And what can we all do to help?

Just starting at home, you know, making sure that you're drinking clean water or that

you have access to water filters or your neighbors or your people that you care about,

just doing little things like that is how these things get better at the end of the day.

Black America's water crisis coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.

Stay with us.

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