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Flash_ina_pan t1_j1n8zz2 wrote

Wasn't Jackson just having water problems? Is this new or just a new turd on the pile?

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Reditate t1_j1na5sw wrote

Yes, hence "more water problems" in the title.

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Flash_ina_pan t1_j1naa44 wrote

I've been drinking and completely missed the word more

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Alexstarfire t1_j1nm1mz wrote

The water in Jackson? Cause uhhh, you might wanna stop.

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Hampsterman82 t1_j1oau9c wrote

Nah, he's a lil fuzzy on reading. If he was drinking the Jackson water he'd be crying on the toilet or mysteriously ill.

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ItchyKnowledge4 t1_j24340t wrote

Jackson is always going to have water problems because of the amount and type of that expansive Yazoo clay in the ground. This is also why they're always repairing roads and house/building foundations

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PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD t1_j1ngmt9 wrote

I work for a water utility and it’s crazy how unprepared people were for this weather.

We’re in an area that sees cold weather, but not this cold. Average lows might dip down into the teens a couple nights a year, but they’re somewhat rare.

We were seeing windchills near -30F which is just unheard of. Waterlines are bursting left and right. People just didn’t have their homes set up to deal with this level of cold.

The utility’s lines are fine, they’re all buried plenty deep enough to deal with a weekends worth of arctic cold, but the homes in the area aren’t.

I had 4 calls last night myself. The other 2 guys on call had at least as many as I had. I might not have 4 calls in a month lol.

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Alexander_Granite t1_j1ok6r6 wrote

What part of the country are you in?

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PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD t1_j1ok88z wrote

South eastern KY

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Mental_Medium3988 t1_j1ozums wrote

make sure yall get some rest. but its also not unreasonable for people to be unprepared for extremes like this.

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PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD t1_j1p00vu wrote

Oh for sure, I don’t blame them one bit. Temps dropped 40 degrees over night. It was wild.

And no worries on the rest part. The way our rotation works out, worst case scenario you’ll be out for 2 hours and will have at least 4 hours back home without having to worry about it. Can suck when it’s non-stop, but more or less it’s rare that it’s like that.

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posadistsupersoldier t1_j1ndb5k wrote

shocked they haven't rioted against the state government that refuses to provide potable water. what kind of nonsense is it that the wealthiest country on earth still has citizens that cannot access potable water?

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Clunas t1_j1npysv wrote

There is a deep disconnect between the city government and the state government in Jackson. Last I heard, the city effectively wanted a blank check to fix it while the state wanted an actual plan before releasing funding as the city has a history of mismanaging funding (see everything that lead to this exact situation as an example)

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Bigapple235 t1_j1otnbc wrote

Maybe another mayor or governor is needed to hopefully fix all this legacy in the area.....

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Reditate t1_j1neg1w wrote

It's Mississippi, they're used to being in the shit. Just how things are there. Don't know better if you've never had better.

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Swimwithamermaid t1_j1no7q4 wrote

And a lot of people in small positions of power want it to be kept that way.

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KamSolis t1_j1oh4gh wrote

They use their anger to vote the GOP into power. Ironic eh?

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TrinkieTrinkie522cat t1_j1nlkl0 wrote

They voted for those politicians

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ReflexImprov t1_j1omyct wrote

Most of the ones that are suffering didn't vote for them.

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mineemage t1_j1pbjuk wrote

The people in Jackson didn’t vote for the Republicans at the state level, and that’s partly why the state politicians are ignoring the people in Jackson.

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lankypiano t1_j1nyu1i wrote

The U.S., especially nowadays is more of a series of unified states than an individual country. State governments hold a lot of power over their own infrastructure. Federal can only do so much.

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Whispering-Depths t1_j1ny3ih wrote

Dude, you are seriously confused.

Wealthiest country = most efficient at taking money from their population and others.

Wealthiest country DOES NOT EQUAL wealthiest average person. The median person in the USA brings in 30k/year and they DO NOT get free healthcare. Everything is out of pocket - insurance and everything, and most insurance companies only pay for 80% of anything, and they only approve the most cost-friendly and barely life-necessary procedures.

On top of that, everyone and their uncle gets to deal with scammers and people trying to cheat the system at everyone else's detriment.

The wealthiest country would be least likely to give their citizens potable water for free. More likely they would rely on citizens being self-sufficient and handing out water to others for free.

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idog99 t1_j1olgr3 wrote

The wealthiest country is the country that produces more than 30% of the total world's economic output. It's the country with the richest citizens and the most accrued wealth in the world.

I get that Luxembourg and Singapore have a higher GDP on average, but these nations are not the wealthiest in the world.

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Whispering-Depths t1_j1pzsss wrote

most concentrated wealth, tbh. imagine if you cut off the top five percent of population wealth and compared to other countries per capita when you do the same there

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DrPreppy t1_j1qbdc6 wrote

Your last paragraph seems quite confused. The nation benefits from all the population having access to necessities so that all can succeed. Same with education and health care.

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SideburnSundays t1_j1nry1y wrote

Memphis had a boil water notice as well, and they always gloat about their tap water. Why do cold temperatures cause a boil water notice when in normal temperatures there’s no pathogens to boil?

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quats5 t1_j1nskmt wrote

There’s no pathogens in a correctly functioning system.

When something breaks — water pressure drops, or a pipe breaks in a freeze, for example — this can allow random outside stuff into the system, and now who knows what’s in your water, until they can get it sealed off, back up to pressure, and flushed through.

It might be fine. It might be lightly contaminated but good enough unless you are immune compromised or get it in your contacts or up your nose. Or it might be more heavily or dangerously contaminated. So they play it safe.

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Hiddencamper t1_j1q0e65 wrote

Pressure in the pipes forced things to leak OUT, not IN.

If you lose water pressure, you have risk of bacteria moving into the pipes and intermingling until you get appropriate system flushing. So until the system is flushed out, you issue boil orders.

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Alexander_Granite t1_j1ojvr1 wrote

WTF is going on with the US? Why is it getting so crappy here?

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ReflexImprov t1_j1on6zk wrote

Predominantly black city in a state that elects a lot of racist politicians. Also see: Flint, MI

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Organic_Magazine_197 t1_j1oslpz wrote

Are you blaming the city or state officials with this statement?

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[deleted] OP t1_j1r0r3e wrote

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Organic_Magazine_197 t1_j1rhr6w wrote

Does the city have a plan? I heard they withheld plans from the state

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the_real_swk t1_j1ry50g wrote

the city has known about its problems for DECADES and done absolutely nothing about it.

The system is owned by the CITY not the state or the feds.

The City has consistently done things to kick the can down the road and try to make others deal with it, but now they are out of proverbial road.

People want to blame the state or the feds for not giving them money, but FFS people PAY for the service, it should 100% self supporting, but the City of Jackson cant even bill the shit properly with millions of dollars of unbilled services from the water service identified in the past several audits.

so yeah just blame the state because yeah its 100% their fault

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Hiddencamper t1_j1q0foo wrote

This in particular is due to climate change affecting a region in a way that it wasn’t designed for.

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Tesus4 t1_j1t8sfp wrote

He is a resident first. He can make calls and people will answer

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the_real_swk t1_j1tw0yk wrote

the city has known about its problems for DECADES and done absolutely nothing about it.

The system is owned by the CITY not the state or the feds.

The City has consistently done things to kick the can down the road and try to make others deal with it, but now they are out of proverbial road.

People want to blame the state or the feds for not giving them money, but FFS people PAY for the service, it should 100% self supporting, but the City of Jackson cant even bill the shit properly with millions of dollars of unbilled services from the water service identified in the past several audits.

Now tell me again how this is the state's or the fed's problem to pay for.

And we havent even talked about the unusually cold weather thats triggered this and the number of homes with burst pipes or maybe the rolling blackouts forced from power generators on the entire region. (Even Memphis which actually has a great water system was forced it issue boil water alerts)

so yeah make this a state or federal political thing when its just Jackson being Jackson wanting everyone else to pay for their fuckups

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orderly_hopeless t1_j1oh5qe wrote

I guess it’s another great day to not be in Jackson!

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alunidaje2 t1_j1okt0s wrote

maybe donald trump will save them. or another one of the republicans they love to keep in office.

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[deleted] OP t1_j1ojgv3 wrote

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WeArePanNarrans t1_j1opd00 wrote

I don’t think a representative at the federal level has much to do with a states water infrastructure.

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