investigation has to play out. brynn gingras, thank you. how bad has the water crisis in jackson, mississippi gotten? health officials are now telling the 150,000 residents there to shower with their mouths shut. assuming they have water in the first place. it has been four days now since flooding pushed the city s decayed and damaged water system to failure. people have either brown water coming out of their faucets or nothing at all. cnn s amara walker is in jackson. amara, crews are scrambling to restore the water there. what is the latest on those repairs? reporter: well, the mississippi governor, tate reeves, is still giving his news conference here at the miss miss state fairgrounds. the purpose was to announce the site of a mega distribution state-run sites for water. but he did give an update and he said that the pumps are operating now at a much higher level, that there is reason for optimism, especially after those newly rented pumps were installed on wednesday. there w
bring you back. meanwhile, officials are using an emergency pump to try to get the water flowing at that damaged water treatment facility in jackson, mississippi, but the mayor there says there are new challenges with the water chemistry and sanitation. today is the fourth day that homes and businesses have been without full water service, but the problems have persisted for much longer than that. a restaurant owner tells cnn every time she goes to the tap, there s a different result. like, i cannot push that any further. against the wall. that s fully turned on this morning. and the issue is, there s an inconsistency in it. even before this latest crisis, some people say they were under a boil water advisory for drinking water for weeks. cnn s amber walker joins us now live from jackson, and you have been speaking to people. what s the degree of, i guess, hope that this is going to be over soon? reporter: i think, for the most part, people are quite hopeful, but they re not
a river that should teem with life instead gives up its dead. fish are dying in the 0der in their thousands. in a single day, they told us here, they pulled 16 tonnes of corpses from the water. after eight days of this, lucas says, hejust feels numb. and it s not over yet. we joined these scientists as they test the water to try to establish what happened. check a lot of parameters of water chemistry. they suspect an as yet unidentified substance polluted the river. that caused a type of algae to flourish. its toxins then killed the fish. you can really sense the frustration, the concern here, and that s because they still don t know what s caused this. and while they can t identify it, they can t predict how long
lucas says, he just feels numb. and it s not over yet. we joined these scientists as they test the water to try to establish what happened. check a lot of parameters of water chemistry. they suspect an as yet unidentified substance polluted the river. that caused a type of algae to flourish. its toxins then killed the fish. you can really sense the frustration, the concern here, and that s because they still don t know what s caused this. and while they can t identify it, they can t predict how long the effects will last and, worse than that, they can t say that it won t happen again. it may be that the hot summer, low water levels played a part. even now, a wave of poison is still spreading down river. translation: the scale of its ecological disaster| is unprecedented in poland. it s a catastrophe.
lucas says, he just feels numb. and it s not over yet. we joined these scientists as they test the water to try to establish what happened. check a lot of parameters of water chemistry. they suspect an as yet unidentified substance polluted the river. that caused a type of algae to flourish. its toxins then killed the fish. you can really sense the frustration, the concern here, and that s because they still don t know what s caused this. and while they can t identify it, they can t predict how long the effects will last and, worse than that, they can t say that it won t happen again. it may be that the hot summer, low water levels played a part. even now, a wave of poison is still spreading down river. translation: the scale of its ecological disaster| is unprecedented in poland.