As Mississippi residents continue to struggle with access to safe drinking water, the state’s governor said that 600 Mississippi National Guardsmen will be deployed to Jackson, the state’s capital, to assist with distributing bottled water.
They and other groups are also being brought in to work on the O.B. Curtis Water Plant—one of the city’s two main water treatment facilities—to restore water levels and clean water.
“In the past 48 hours, we’ve installed a new rental pump, contracted with outside operators to do critical maintenance and started other emergency repairs,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves told reporters on Wednesday of the stop-gap measure to restore pressure to the water system. “We’re going to need electricians and mechanics and divers and other skilled operators to complete all of this work. It’s happening.”…