In the months since the most recent water issues began in Jackson, Mississippi, donations have dwindled and volunteers have been hard to come by. “The outpouring of help that took place in August, it’s way different now,' a program director said.
Dontavious Spann, left, with the Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition, and volunteer Preston Alston of Jackson, Miss., help to distribute water to Jackson, Miss., residents near Northside Drive and Manhattan Road on Dec. 27, 2022.ByIn the months since the most recent water woes began in Jackson, Mississippi, national attention has died down, donations have dwindled, and volunteers have been hard to come by.
Jackson’s already-frail water system suffered a dayslong outage over the summer, in a crisis that sparked national outrage and called attention to the decades of water struggles in the city of. Thanks to donations and the national attention, grassroots organizers were able to distribute hundreds of cases of bottled water to panicked residents after the O.B. Curtis Water Plant failed in August.
Now, some five months later, organizers say there aren’t many resources to go around to residents still in need. “The outpouring of help that took place in August, it’s way different now. I guess people burned out,” said Gino Womack, program director of the community organization Operation Good. “There are so many mixed messages about who’s to blame, what to blame, but at the end of the day, it’s the people who suffer. There’s still a fight to give people this basic necessity.”to long lines of Jackson residents in a single day.
A line of cars snakes past several city blocks as workers with the Mississippi Rapid Response coalition hand out bottled water to Jackson, Miss., residents on Dec. 27, 2022.Jackson has one of the oldest water systems in the country, with authorities routinely directing residents to boil their water for safety, and residents often reporting brown water, leaking sewage and low water pressure.
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