- The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water system in Jackson, Mississippi – an EJ community.
- Jackson residents have been boiling water since July 2002.
- EPA has been investigating since October 2022 whether the City has been engaging in environmental discrimination due to officials’ inability to fund water system upgrades.
By: The Philadelphia Sunday Sun | January 1, 2023
The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city — a project that the mayor has said could cost billions of dollars…
Jackson is a majority-Black city of nearly 150,000, with about 25% of residents living in poverty…
Since late July, people in the city had been advised to boil water before consuming it because health officials had found cloudy water that could cause illness. That advisory remained in place until mid-September…
The EPA announced Oct. 20 that it was investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements to the water system. EPA Administrator Michael Regan has been to Jackson multiple times for meetings about the water.
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