A blue city in a red state doesn’t have any clean water. Whose fault is it?
The city of Jackson is controlled by Democrats.
The state of Mississippi is controlled by Republicans.
Whose fault is it that the city doesn’t have any clean water?
Reuters wrote:
Jackson, Mississippi, to go without reliable drinking water indefinitely
Jackson, Mississippi, will go without reliable drinking water indefinitely, officials said on Monday, after pumps at the main water treatment plant failed, leading to the emergency distribution of bottled water and tanker trucks for 180,000 people.
The city linked the failure to complications from the flooding of the Pearl River, but Governor Tate Reeves, who declared a state of emergency, said the cause was unknown and that the city-run water treatment plant had been poorly operated and understaffed for years.
In any case the capital city of 150,000 people and 30,000 in surrounding communities could go without running water indefinitely, as officials warned anyone with access to tap water should boil it for three minutes.
Jackson, the state capital, is more than 80% Black or African American, according to U.S. Census data.
“Do not drink the water,” Reeves told a hastily called news conference. “In too many cases, it is raw water from the reservoir being pushed through the pipes.”
In Cuba, this doctor’s home has running water for only one hour a day
Here’s a six minute video on what it’s like to be a doctor in Cuba.
At 4:53, when the doctor is at her home with her husband and their daughter, the narrator says:
“… they only have running water one hour a day…”
If that’s how Cuba treats its doctors, I wonder how they treat the average citizen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBC5w2O4jVI
I live in Pittsburgh, and I just deliberately drank a cup of tap water without boiling it
After reading this article, I just went and drank a cup of water straight from the faucet without boiling it. I do not have a water filter.
I think the city’s call to boil water was not justified. The filter at the city’s water treatment plant would stop the giardia. Also, there was only one reading of low chlorine, and it was only slightly below the normal level. No giardia has been found in the water that has gone through the city’s filter. No cases of the illness have been reported.
I think the city cried wolf.
If there ever is a real need for a boil water alert in the future, this current incident will cause people to be skeptical and suspicious that there is a real need to boil water. The city goofed up.
Why has California chosen water shortages over desalination?
Israel has made the choice to turn its water shortages into surpluses by building lots of desalination plants. Desalination costs less than 40 cents per cubic meter, which is less than 1/6 penny per gallon. It’s so cheap that in addition to using desalinized water for residential uses, Israel also uses it for agriculture.
Meanwhile, California has chosen to have water shortages instead of building enough desalination plants.
Why did California make this choice?
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