Jackson, MS water crisis

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  1. 2. As of March, 70 percent of the Jackson’s water customers remained this week under a notice to ____ water.
  2. 4. Residents had relied on _____ water to drink and cook.
  3. 6. Gov. Reeves called in the National _____to help distribute water and has hinted that the state might take over Jackson’s water system.
  4. 8. Jackson’s crisis shares some similarities with _____,MI where deindustrialization and white flight emptied out the city, leaving a smaller population to support vast infrastructure systems.
  5. 9. The crisis is not new in ____,MS, a city of about 160,000 where a majority of residents are Black.
  6. 10. Across Jackson, the freezing temperatures burst _____and water mains and left a trail of misery that has stretched on for nearly a month.
  7. 13. The city has had a dwindling ___ base for decades, after the integration of schools and other public spaces in Jackson triggered a dramatic flight of white residents.
  8. 14. The city’s water _____has parts of which are more than 100 years old,
  9. 15. Mayor Lumumba said he hoped the current crisis would finally push both state and city officials in the direction of a ____-term solution.
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  1. 1. In Jackson white _____ , an eroding tax base and poor management have left the remaining residents with old and broken pipes.
  2. 3. In 1960, the city was about 64 percent _____ and 36 percent Black. Today it is about 16 percent _____ and 82 percent Black.
  3. 4. Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has estimated that modernizing the city’s water infrastructure could cost $2 _____.
  4. 5. A few years ago, a study found elevated levels of ____ in the water, prompting comparisons to the water crisis in Flint, Mich.
  5. 7. “There’s a saying that you should allow no _____ to go to waste,” he said. “It’s ____ like these that really allow us to take stock of conditions of where we are as a city, where we are as a state and hopefully it allows us to build the resolve to address it.”
  6. 11. “Jackson’s infrastructure was built at a time when the ______ was much higher, and white flight has led to divestment,” Mayor. Lumumba said. “It has left fewer people to maintain what was built for more people.”
  7. 12. The same weather storm crushed ______power grid and water systems, leaving millions without heat or drinkable water.