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March 6, 2021 Share
Officials in Mississippi’s largest city, Jackson, are aiming to have running water largely restored by the weekend, nearly three weeks after devastating winter weather left tens of thousands of residents without service.
The city was again distributing non-potable water Friday at four sites so people can flush their toilets, and residents must still boil any faucet water before using it for food preparation, drinking, washing dishes or brushing teeth.
Charles Williams, the city’s public works director, said Thursday that workers should soon be able to sample enough water to lift the boil advisory.
“I see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Williams said at a news conference, sounding more optimistic than he did Wednesday, when problems at the city’s treatment plant caused pressure to drop across the entire system. At that time, he estimated that about a quarter of Jackson’s 43,000 water connections most of which serve multiple househol
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JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - A crisis that left thousands of residents of Mississippi’s capital without running water for weeks appears to be nearing an end, a local official said on Friday, as workers continue to restore service following paralyzing winter storms.
FILE PHOTO: Mark Clark works at a public water distribution site after a recent bout of cold weather caused large numbers of outages, some going into their third week, in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Rory Doyle/
Jackson, the Southern state’s largest city with a population of more than 160,000 people, again distributed non-potable water at four sites so people could flush their toilets. Residents must still boil any faucet water to kill any disease-causing organisms before using it.