'The city remains under threat of a state-imposed privatization,' said MaryGrant_Water, director of the Public Water for All campaign foodandwater.
that when the beleaguered O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant"is back online and this new acute phase is past, the Jackson water crisis will not be over."at Thursday's press conference, Reeves suggested that his emergency declaration marked the beginning of the GOP-dominated state Legislature taking the reins of Jackson's water system away from the Democratic-led city, though he acknowledged federal authorities could step in instead.
The governor noted that"it could also be outside the control, even in the Mississippi Legislature—the [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] is an entity that has a say in this as well." To Grant's earlier point about the climate crisis, the recent failures at O.B. Curtis that led to a complete loss of water pressure were precipitated by a late-August bout of record-breaking rainfall—something scientists have longPressure was restored earlier this month, but Thursday marked the first time that city residents have not been instructed to boil their water since July 29.
Winterization of the plant was necessary because in early 2021, most Jackson residents were forced toan entire month without clean running water—during the Covid-19 pandemic—after a historic freeze damaged systems that Mayor Chokwe Lumumba said were never intended to withstand"days of ice storms and sub-zero temperatures."
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