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A growing number of people on social media are signing on to the belief that the ongoing water crisis in Democrat-run Jackson, Miss., is nothing more than a manufactured crisis in order to extort [...]
On Tuesday, the water crisis update was at the center of the Fort Myers city council meeting, just as snowbird season has started.
Many in the majority black city were roughly a quarter of residents live in poverty told cnn systemic neglect is one of the drivers of the water issues. kathryn coleman flowers is joining me from huntsville, alabama at the center of rural enterprise and justice and vice chair of the white house justice advisory counsel and author of "waste, one woman's fight against america's dirty secret." thanks for joining us on a saturday appreciate it. what is america's dirty secret as you see it? >> there are over 2 million people living in the united states without sanitation. in other words, when they ...
The governor of mississippi says since the state opened up distribution sites, seven of them across the area, they handed out some 2.8 million bottles to residents with more trucks full of water on the way throughout the weekend. now, that water treatment plant is still dealing with plenty of problems. and the administrator for fema flew in from d.c. on friday to walk that facility and talk to state and local leaders about the problems here. i want you to listen to administrator explain why those federal dollars will stay here in the city of jackson and how they're allocated. take a listen. >>...
Becomes another jackson or flint. >> first and foremost, we have to realize that we are one georgia and that there should not be a discrepancy based on racial inequity or economic capacity. the provision of law, the provision of clean water is a fundamental obligation of the state. and as deputy city attorney for the city of atlanta i worked with the mayor of atlanta to ensure we were able to deliver clean water. across the state local governments are precluded from taking the actions they need because they are not getting the support they deserve from the state of georgia. i would take the re...