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.
FILE - A trickle of water comes out of the faucet at Mary Gaines' Golden Keys Senior Living apartment in Jackson, Miss., Sept. 1, 2022. 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. Funding for Jackson, Miss., water is included in a $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that passed the Senate on Thursday, Dec. 22, and the House on Friday, Dec. 23.
Funding for Jackson water is included in a $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that passed the Senate on Thursday and the House on Friday. President Joe Biden is expected to sign it into law. “As families begin to gather for the holiday season, today’s action providing emergency funding to address the fundamental need of safe drinking water for every household in Jackson should be celebrated as a promise of equitable infrastructure services for all families everywhere,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson, who lives in Jackson, said in a statement Friday.
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.
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