In the public works industry they call this sort of situation a "this can't be happening, this is a once-in-a-generation disaster, this is no no no good at all"-level crisis:
The city of Jackson, Miss., which has struggled with a crumbling water infrastructure for years, has no reliable running water, authorities said.
Pumps at the city's main water-treatment plant failed Monday, Gov. Tate Reeves said at a press conference, leaving the state capital with little to no water — and sometimes raw reservoir water — flowing through the pipes.
State authorities said that, because of the poor-quality water and the low water pressure, it wasn't safe for people to drink the water or to brush their teeth with it. Instead, officials were working to distribute cases of water to the city's roughly 150,000 residents.
"Sometimes raw reservoir water." Yeah that is not what you want coming through your faucet.
But surely they'll have all this sorted out in a matter of days, right?
"It is going to be a massive undertaking," Mr. Reeves, a Republican, said Monday. He added that it could take three or four months to repair the plant.
Um, "three to four months?" That's...
Let's hope they get it straightened out sooner than that.
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