Mississippi Water Crisis - Is the City Providing Water or Other Types of Aid?

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It has become a tricky situation to know how they're working together or not. The city knows it's in the middle of a crisis. The state knows it's also in the midst of an emergency. Are those two entities working together at this point? How are they responding? I honestly don't even want to bathe my baby in Jackson's water. It's sad. And I can't even afford to move out of Jackson's, so I have to stay here and deal with this.

What’s happening in Jackson is hardly unique: Cities and states across the US are setting themselves up for failure by postponing expensive but critical work on aging water infrastructure. Climate change is making things worse, faster.

This episode was produced by Jillian Weinberger and Amanda Lewellyn with help from Victoria Chamberlin and Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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