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"This is not about the mayor and it's not about the governor," Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said.

Mayor Lumumba is critical of attempts to privatize the city’s faulty water system that fell into serious disrepair over decades of neglect.

Gov. Tate Reeves said the city can operate the system if they insist, but their leaders, including Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, are "incompetent."

“What we have proven over the last 52 days is the water struggles in Jackson were specific to the incompetence of this administration and this Mayor,” Reeves said. Earlier this week, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves released a statement in response to city officials reporting that the Mayor of Jack

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and U.S. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney sent a letter asking Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves to take action to "fix this life and death issue."

There were equipment and staffing shortages.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says the city of Jackson is making a "huge mistake" in how it is handling the citys water crisis.

Governor DeSantis provides a comprehensive look, at what is happening ion the recovery efforts of Hurricane Ian. Including over 250 rescues that have been made by more than 1,000 team members performing search and rescue.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says the unified command is proactively seeking long-term solutions to sustain the state’s work at these facilities. The Unified Command of the Jackson Water Crisis is looking to fill operations and maintenance contracts at the City of Jackson's water tre

In a statement issued Monday, Gov. Tate Reeves blamed Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba for ending Jackson's cooperation with the Unified Command, which was made up of local, state and federal agencies working together to respond to the city's water crisis.