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The 17th Annual Mississippi Blues Marathon is making its way back to the Capitol City on Saturday.

Restaurants manage to persevere through Jackson, MS, water crisis. They are still trying to put the pieces back together.

Water pressure is back in Mississippi's capital but it's still not safe to drink. Residents have been through this so many times that they've learned how to cope. That doesn't mean they're happy.

Water pressure is back in Mississippi's capital but it's still not safe to drink. Residents have been through this so many times that they've learned how to cope. That doesn't mean they're happy.

Jackson is the most populated city in Mississippi. When tourism is down in the Capital City, it means less money is coming into the entire state.

Jackson Mayor said at a press conference on Tuesday that contrary to such reports, "there was no raw, untreated water that went out"

Mississippi's National Guard was activated on Tuesday to help hand out water to tens of thousands of Jackson residents after a long-neglected treatment plant broke down, leaving most of the state capital without safe running water, possibly for days.

Many of the 180,000 people who live in the area served by the treatment plant had no choice on Tuesday but to stockpile water, close their businesses and keep their children home. The state said residents would have to endure life without running water indefinitely as officials scrambled to make repairs.

'A total crisis': Life in Mississippi's capital disrupted by water loss

Jackson, Ms – Marsha Lewis, a bartender in Mississippi’s state capital city, said she went to fill up her bathtub on Monday when she heard a local water treatment had shut down, but she was ‘horrified” to instead see raw sewage flowing from the faucet. By Tuesday morning, after the governor declared a state of emergency for Jackson and neighboring communities, she had no water at all. “I’m just mad. …