The White House says the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit Mississippi's capital city on Friday as local, state and federal officials deal with a water system crisis.
Mary Gaines a resident of the Golden Keys Senior Living apartments displays contaminated water in her kitchen in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. A recent flood worsened Jackson's longstanding water system problems.
“To everyone in the city: I know that you are dealing with a profoundly unfair situation,” Reeves said. “It’s frustrating, it’s wrong and it needs to be fixed.” City communications director Melissa Payne said all of the water system's customers — 46,000 residential accounts and 6,000 commercial — were affected by low water pressure at some time during the crisis. The latest available figures from the city showed that 80% of the water system's customers had little or no water as of Wednesday morning. It was unclear how many had been substantially restored as of Thursday.
Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell plans to visit the state Friday, Jean-Pierre said.