{"id":251562,"date":"2024-05-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/a-pot-of-unspent-federal-money-could-have-prevented-jacksons-water-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:10:41","slug":"a-pot-of-unspent-federal-money-could-have-prevented-jacksons-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/a-pot-of-unspent-federal-money-could-have-prevented-jacksons-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A pot of unspent federal money could have prevented Jackson\u2019s water crisis"},"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\">Late in the summer of 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency sent the Mississippi state government a routine report assessing its use of federal funding for water infrastructure. The agency concluded with the words: \u201cno findings\u201d \u2014 that is, the EPA found no issue with how Mississippi was spending its money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The very next day, on August 29, as many as 180,000 residents in the Jackson area lost access to clean drinking water and Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba both declared a state of emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">More than twelve inches of rain had fallen across the region, causing the Pearl River, which begins about 75 miles northeast of Jackson and flows south to the Gulf Coast, to flood. Jackson\u2019s main water treatment plant was overrun. 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