They've got no water in one of the largest cities, but those state officials are definitely on top of making sure that those uppity females have no access to reproductive healthcare, and that city is mostly not white people -- they've got their priorities to take care of!<p></sarc><p>Meanwhile, it looks like some federal intervention, e.g., Army Corp of Engineers is likely needed.<p>More seriously, this is what we get when politicians chase "culture issues" and don't actually govern, and people care more about revenge on groups they don't like than electing people who will actually govern.<p>Seriously broken
Meanwhile... the state government passed the largest income tax cut in its history just a few months ago. <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi/articles/2022-04-05/mississippi-governor-signs-states-largest-income-tax-cut" rel="nofollow">https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi/articles...</a>
Even regular tap water in many US cities is contaminated with PFAS and other pollutants.<p>When water does reach a house, only about 5-20% is used for cooking or drinking - the rest for watering plants, showers, toilet flushing, washing.<p>Is it better to just outfit each home with an under-sink reverse osmosis machine and pipe in raw reservoir water?
This reporter has been writing great informative articles on this for years<p><a href="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/jackson-water-crisis-investigation" rel="nofollow">https://www.mississippifreepress.org/jackson-water-crisis-in...</a>
From the article:<p>> The city and state were both distributing bottled drinking water and non-potable water for toilets<p>Is there a risk to using untreated water from the river & reservoir to flush your toilets? Why would the city need to distribute toilet water?
Woah, Paolo Bacigalupi wrote "Water knife" only 7 years ago and I thought it depicts a scenario our grandkids will face.
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife</a>