Jackson, Miss.
The sunshine is back and the ice has melted. But more than a week after a deep freeze across the South, many communities are still grappling with getting clean water to their citizens.
For years, experts have warned of the need to upgrade aging and often-neglected waterworks. Now, after icy weather cracked the region s water mains, froze equipment, and left millions without service, it’s clear just how much work needs to be done.
Families stood for hours in lines to get drinking water. They boiled it to make it safe to drink or brush their teeth. They scooped up snow and melted it in their bathtubs. Hospitals collected buckets of water to flush toilets.
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