The people of Jackson, Mississippi, are living on bottled water. We had to do that in West Virginia when an industrial solvent got in the water plant in Charleston a few years ago.
But we could still flush toilets because the water wasn’t brown, unlike Jackson’s. And we could shower.
We know what the problem is. Government.
A private company — American Water Company — provides water in the Charleston-Huntington area. The problem lasted a few weeks. Trial lawyers filed a class action lawsuit and we received a few hundred dollars each for our trouble. The money, of course, was just moved from one pocket to another. But there was some accountability.
In Jackson, the city runs the water plant. There will be no accountability.
Democrats run Jackson. They always have. They always will. They blame the Republican governor.
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