{"id":249693,"date":"2024-04-26T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/a-water-crisis-in-mississippi-turns-into-a-fight-against-privatization\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:17:32","slug":"a-water-crisis-in-mississippi-turns-into-a-fight-against-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/a-water-crisis-in-mississippi-turns-into-a-fight-against-privatization\/","title":{"rendered":"A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency, as thousands of residents were told to boil their water before drinking it. For some, the pressure in their taps was so low that they couldn\u2019t flush their toilets and were forced to rely on bottled water for weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Many of the city\u2019s 150,000 residents were wary that their local government could get clean water running through their pipes again. State officials had a history of undermining efforts to repair Jackson\u2019s beleaguered infrastructure, and the city council, for its part, didn\u2019t have the money to make the fixes on its own. 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