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As Jackson's water crisis continues, outside communities are bringing water to residents in need Keisha Rowe, Mississippi Clarion Ledger WATCH: Jackson water maintenance crews working to get water mains fixed Replay Video UP NEXT Eddie Staten pushed a grocery cart nearly a mile to the Mississippi College School of Law on Sunday for one reason — to find clean water. Staten is one of the thousands of people in Jackson who were affected by the massive water outage after two winter storms swept through Mississippi in mid-February. Nearly three weeks later, pockets of the city...

bring more than 1,900 cases of bottled water to Jackson. When the storms hit, Land said he was also under a boil water advisory, but his problems resolved after a few days. He said he's never heard of an outage lasting nearly as long as the one in Jackson and felt compelled to help. "I saw the news story and figured I needed to do something," he said. Land said after talking with others  in the organization, he spoke with his father, Jeff Land, and began coordinating how to bring water to the Charles Clark American Inn of Courts in Jackson.