CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -"This is due to decades, decades and decades, of possibly 30 years or more of deferred maintenance, a lack of capital improvements made to the system, a lack of a human capital, a workforce plan that accounted for the challenges that our water treatment facility suffers from, ” Lumumba told “ABC News Prime” last month.

Detailed explanation-2: -The intersection of two disasters – infrastructure failure and river flooding – exacerbated a pre-existing water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. In mid-to-late August 2022, heavy rains led to flooding along the Pearl River watershed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jackson’s already-frail water system suffered a dayslong outage over the summer, in a crisis that sparked national outrage and called attention to the decades of water struggles in the city of 150, 000 residents, nearly 83% of them Black.

Detailed explanation-4: -It’s been over five months since the Pearl River crested and Jackson, Mississippi’s water system failed. Now, crews are working to replace the pipe system, but families and businesses are prepared to go without water periodically, for up to 10 years. Cities across the country are replacing fragile water pipe systems.