City of Jackson, Republican-controlled state government clash over water supply
Jackson’s troubled water system could be one step closer to getting new owners after legislation passed the state Senate Tuesday.
Parker said he introduced the bill to establish how the water system will be governed after Ted Henifin, the system’s interim manager appointed by a federal court, concludes his work. Parker also said Jackson’s water woes are stymying economic development. The water crisis has caused repeated outages in which many of the city’s 150,000 residents have gone days and weeks without water to drink, cook, bathe or flush toilets.
Jackson is an 80 per cent Black city. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is Black, as are most of the lawmakers who represent the city in the state legislature. Lumumba has said he wants the city to maintain control of its water. “This is not a problem that the current mayor of Jackson created, that he had had any control over,” Parker said. “We have been given an opportunity with some federal dollars to try to fix this problem.”
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