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Photo by Brad Vest/Getty Images By Malaika Jabali· Updated August 31, 2022
President Biden declared a federal emergency in Jackson, Mississippi after over 180,000 residents of the majority-Black city are without reliable running water for an “indefinite” period.
Officials cut off water when the city’s main water treatment facility, the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, was flooded and pumps failed this week. The city’s website notes that it
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