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This is Eileen Wray-McCann for Circle of Blue. And this is What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water, made possible by support from people like you.  In the United States, winter storms that swept through the South in mid-February crippled the water system in Mississippi’s capital. The 166,000 residents of Jackson endured three weeks of water outages, low water pressure, and notices warning them to boil their water for safety. Jackson’s water crisis has a number of causes. There were over a hundred water main breaks during the storms in addition to electrical and mechanical failures at the O.B. Curtis water treatment plant. While the pipes and plant were being repaired, city officials and the National Guard handed out non-potable water for flushing toilets. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba told NPR that the water crisis is the result of decaying infrastructure that was weakened by the storms. The water system’s 100-year-old pipes, said Lumu

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