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(JACKSON, Miss.) -- Jackson, Mississippi, resident Velma Warner says the city's most recent flooding brings up memories of two years past, when Pearl River floo
Brad Vest/Getty Images(JACKSON, Miss.) -- Jackson, Mississippi, resident Velma Warner says the city's most recent flooding brings up memories of two years past, when Pearl River floods forced many in the Canton Club neighborhood of Northeast Jackson to leave their homes. Though Warner and her family had time to prepare their home for potential water breach, the effect flooding would have on the city's water supply posed another–not entirely unpredictable–issue, she says. One month after the city issued a boil water notice, damage to the nearby O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant h...
Liberal media outlets and figures blamed a long-running water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi on racism in the wake of Gov. Tate Reeves declaring an emergency.
The residents of Jackson, Mississippi, share how the water crisis has impacted their lives.