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Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid
Following torrential downpours last week, Jackson, Mississippi—the state’s capital and largest city—is still without safe water to drink, bathe or brush their teeth. The city is home to 180,000 people, more than 80 percent of whom are Black and a quarter of whom fall below the poverty line. The immediate crisis was triggered by flooding in the Pearl River and Ross R. Barnett Reservoir that overwhelmed the city’s long-neglected water treatment infrastructure. Jackson’s water issues, though, are long-running and well-known to residents; they were first told to boil their water in July. Many haven’t sipped tap water for years. This isn’t the first time Jackson has gone without clean water, eith

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