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For over 10 days now, around half the residents of Jackson, Mississippi have not had running water.

And nobody is talking about it on a national scale.

I am begging the national media to please pay attention. There is a crisis happening in Jackson.
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Tanker trucks, National Guard dispatched to Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis
The water is not expected to be completely restored until the end of the week.

The governor of Mississippi said he's dispatching the National Guard and more tanker trucks to the state's capital city to help bring an end to a water crisis that emerged following severe winter storms that crippled the community's aging infrastructure.

Many residents of Jackson, a city of more than 160,000 people, have been struggling for over a week to secure enough water to handle basic needs, officials said.

As he waited in line at a local high school to get water from a tanker truck, Alfred Anderson Jr. summed up the feelings that he said many Jackson taxpayers have: "This is pitiful and a shame."

"We pay all this money ... and we have got to come out here, most of these people, and wait on to try to get stuff to flush your toilets and, you know, do your hygiene stuff and whatever," Anderson told ABC affiliate station WAPT in Jackson.

Casandra Woody, another Jackson resident waiting in the same line for water, said the situation "is sad."
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I've been talking about it since we lost water last Tuesday evening. We finally have enough pressure to fill up a pot to boil to cook and brush our teeth with, but not enough to fill up the hot water tank. And not enough pressure for dishwasher, washing machine or shower. They quit telling us a few days ago what the psi was after a couple of days when there was no increase and their explanation of why didn't make much sense. Even if we get pressure back this weekend like they're promising, we're still looking at a week of boil water, assuming they get the turbidity under control.

"Last Tuesday" was the 16th, not the 23rd.
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This might be why they quit reporting the psi.
JACKSON, Miss. —
The City of Jackson said progress was made Friday with pressure levels reaching 87 with a goal of 90. On Saturday, the number went down. The system saw psi numbers in the lower 70s.

As of Saturday, there were 33 suspected water main breaks and 10 confirmed breaks. There is a long way to go, leaving many people praying that their water returns soon.
We had enough water pressure yesterday about 3:00 pm for my husband to get a quick shower. Not enough at 7:30 pm to fill the sink to wash dishes. Enough pressure at 4:30 this morning for my shower but not enough to flush the toilet at 8:00 am. This is getting old, fast.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... percenters
Phoenix has a deep history of environmental injustice. Low-income communities and communities of color suffer disproportionately from Phoenix’s extreme heat, a problem compounded by water access and affordability.

No one appears to have studied how flood irrigation correlates with wealth or race. Research indicates white, wealthier people are more likely to live in grassier, shadier neighborhoods. In one study from 2008, local researchers found that during one heat wave, the temperature discrepancy between a wealthier neighborhood and a poorer one in Phoenix hit 13.5F. Trees and grass accounted for the difference.

Whiter, wealthier people were more likely to have more vegetation, and in turn, cooler climates, the authors found. That study did not examine how greener areas were watered, but any irrigation has costs. “Affluent people ‘buy’ more favorable microclimates,” the researchers concluded.

Cynthia Campbell, water resources advisor for the city of Phoenix, says she understands why wealthy neighborhoods might still have flood irrigation while poorer ones don’t, even if both have legal rights to the water: high-income families can afford to spend hundreds of dollars on water delivery, pipeline repairs, and irrigation-district taxes. For lower-income ones, that kind of spending might not be possible.
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LA beaches close after 17m gallons of untreated sewage discharged into bay
Health officials face anger over hours-long delay before notifying public of danger

Victoria Bekiempis
Thu 15 Jul 2021 01.04 BST

Seventeen million gallons of untreated sewage were discharged into California’s Santa Monica Bay between Sunday evening and early Monday morning, spurring beach closures, as well as criticism of how health officials notified the public about potential safety risks.

The problems came to a head at Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, located in the Playa del Rey area of Los Angeles, on Sunday evening. An “unusual amount of debris” – including construction waste and grease, among other refuse – entered the plant through its sewer lines, said Elena Stern, a senior public information director for the city’s department of public works.

These items, which Hyperion is not designed to process, “just inundated and overwhelmed the system”, clogging the screens which, in turn, caused flooding at the plant. “To avoid having the entire plant shut down, which would have been catastrophic, we had to discharge some of the untreated sewage to alleviate the system,” Stern said.

Raw sewage began to be released around 7.30pm and managers notified state officials just after 8.10pm – with the Los Angeles county public health department showing up on the scene about two and a half hours later. The raw sewage discharge ended at 4.30am on Monday; in total, the discharge constituted about 6% of Hyperion’s daily flow.

The public health department posted an advisory to Twitter at 5.30pm on Monday stating that the El Segundo and Dockweiler Beaches in Los Angeles were closed because of this sewage discharge. Officials advised beachgoers to “stay out of the water until the advisory is removed”.

The department said it had sent out a press release around 5.15pm. (A copy seen by the Guardian lists the send time as 5.36pm.) The department also said that workers started posting signs on affected beaches around 11am.

A captain with the county fire department’s lifeguard division told the Los Angeles Times that his teams had only learned of beach closures at around 12pm, when they spotted a county worker posting a notice on a lifeguard station.

The delay between the raw sewage discharge and broad public notification has prompted criticism. Janice Hahn, a county supervisor, said on Twitter: “What happened yesterday off the coast of Dockweiler Beach was irresponsible, unacceptable and dangerous.



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