‘You Can’t Bathe. You Can’t Wash.’ Water Crisis Hobbles Jackson, Miss., for Weeks
Nearly one month after a winter storm froze pipes and water mains, more than 70 percent of the city’s water customers remained under a notice to boil water.
Lavern Avant in her apartment in Jackson, Miss., with water she has collected to use and share with friends and family.Credit...Rory Doyle for The New York Times
By Ellen Ann Fentress and Richard Fausset
Published March 12, 2021Updated March 22, 2021
JACKSON, Miss. — Once again, Lavern Avant was spending her day scouring Mississippi’s capital city, hoping to get her hands on a basic necessity that she and many of her neighbors had gone without for weeks.