Boil and conserve: Treatment issues and hot weather put strain on Jackson water

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Boil and conserve: Treatment issues and hot weather put strain on Jackson water
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A combination of an ammonia leak and improper water treatment has forced all of Jackson’s water customers to boil their water for nearly two weeks straight now.

by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today July 7, 2022 Those boil water notices came only days after the city asked residents to conserve what water they were using because of hotter than average weather.  City of Jackson officials on Thursday did not have a definitive timeline for lifting the boil water notice, but said the service may be back to fully functioning as early as Friday for well system customers, and as early as Saturday for surface system customers.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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