The Jackson, Mississippi water crisis and America's crumbling water system

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jackson, Mississippi hasn't had safe drinking water for weeks. The city's mayor says the problem's decades in the making. That makes Jackson a lesson for the entire country. Donna Ladd, Aaron Packman and Catherine Coleman-Flowers join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:30.0	There's a rule of thumb for human survival called the Rule of Threes.
0:35.0	You can only survive three minutes without air, three days without water,
0:40.7	and three weeks without food.
0:43.3	Well, that middle one, that you can't survive without water for more than three days.
0:48.9	Water is that essential.
0:52.0	And don't the people of Jackson, Mississippi know it.
0:55.9	Water, water, and put bleach in it.
0:59.0	It's all the time, really.
1:00.7	Bleach, I'll kill any germ.
1:02.7	Yeah, gotta bleach it.
1:05.1	Patricia Anderson has been boiling and bleaching the water coming out of her kitchen
1:08.7	tap since the beginning of August.
1:10.9	Torential rain and severe flooding of the Pearl River overwhelmed Jackson's water treatment
1:15.3	plant, whose main pumps had already broken down in July.
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