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Decrepit Pipes Put Jackson, Mississippi, on the Edge of Catastrophe. State Regulators Didn’t Act. (www.propublica.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Beneath the city of Jackson, Mississippi, is a Rube Goldberg-esque network of pipes that brings water to residents. The system, by one estimate, is twice as long as it should be for a city of this size. Much of it has been in disrepair for years; some parts are more than 100 years old.

Underground, broken pipes have spewed water into the surrounding earth or sent it bubbling up from cracked streets. For every gallon of water that reaches a customer’s tap, at least another gallon doesn’t, according to a June estimate from the manager of the water system.

Aboveground, the symptoms of those problems have been faucets that sputtered and toilet bowls that didn’t refill. Teenagers in the county’s juvenile-detention center were sent to other facilities to shower, one official said. Hospitals that regularly lost water built their own wells. Roughly every few days, people in one part of town or another have received notices telling them their water was unsafe to drink unless they boiled it first. At times, like for two weeks in the winter of 2021, many residents had no running water at all.

But for years, state employees inspecting Jackson’s primary water system noted few problems with the distribution system — the pipes that delivered water to its customers. In the 16 years before the system collapsed in 2022, leaving roughly 160,000 residents in and around Jackson dependent on bottled water for weeks, inspectors admonished the city just a couple times about the pipes underground. They identified issues with low water pressure just once and noted high water loss a few times. But they issued no formal reprimands or fines.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Silly voters the only infrastructure and plumbing Republicans care about is female infrastructure and Plumbing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It's funny how conservatives yearn for "the good old days," yet persistently overlook that said days included massive public investment into infrastructure. Investments that were scuttled as quickly as possible because "fiscal responsibility" and yet carried the country through several generations of cronyism, privatization, and outright neglect. And now that the maintenance bill is coming due, it's Pikachu faces all around while privatized utilities count their stacks of cash from the places that can afford it and the poorer areas crumble.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It sounds to me like they're closing in on the libertarian dream water supply system - everyone build their own well and filtration system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That sucks.

I like the illustration in the article though so they have that going for them...

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

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