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Today, Explained

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What’s happening in Jackson is hardly unique: Cities and states across the US are setting themselves up for failure by postponing expensive but critical work on aging water infrastructure. Climate change is making things worse, faster. This episode was produced by Jillian Weinberger and Amanda Lewellyn with help from Victoria Chamberlin and Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In Jackson, Mississippi, here's the past month summed up.

0:04.2

It's like playing Russian relapse that you don't know if you're going to wake up with water.

0:08.6

You don't know if you got water.

0:10.4

You don't know where conditioned the water is in.

0:12.8

Now, in response to the chaos, the city's website has been updating residents.

0:17.2

Yesterday, the most recent update, the water pressure is back,

0:20.9

but the tap water is still not safe to drink unless it is boiled first.

0:26.0

It's an horrible situation in the entire city of Jackson, not just one individual.

0:32.0

And I blame the city council, the governor, and the mayor,

0:37.5

because they're all in confusion and no one seemed to know how to solve the problem.

0:43.2

Coming up on today's point, how Jackson, Mississippi, became ground zero for today anyway

0:47.6

of our national infrastructure crisis.

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