The burden of Jackson's latest water crisis has fallen on the shoulders of the city's youngest and most vulnerable residents.
is without a reliable water supply because of flooding, and it's not clear when residents will be able to expect safe running water.
“They need to be at school, instead of here with me because they’re just playing,” Terrell said, as her granddaughter and grandson, 5, swapped their schools books for firsthand lessons about failed infrastructure."It shouldn’t be like this,” she said. Thomas said she initially lost water pressure in her West Jackson neighborhood Monday, but that the flow has since improved.
“It seems like the more crises we have in Jackson with the water, the more the prices go up,” Thomas said. Lumumba said residents know this latest emergency is a drop in the bucket, compared to the years of water struggles. Watts came to Walmart on Tuesday in hopes of finding distilled water to prepare formula for his infant. His family’s South Jackson home, he said, has had poor water pressure for about a week.
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