"I can't cook or brush my teeth at will"

According to the Singapore "Lianhe Zaobao" website reported on September 4, on the 3rd, the water plant treatment system of Jackson City, Mississippi, was destroyed by the flood for the sixth day. Many citizens still do not drink clean tap water. The authorities dispatched the National Guard to assist the disaster relief and distribute bottle water to the affected residents, but the number is limited.

According to reports, floods flowing through the Perle River flowing through Mississippi have affected the water supply of the main water plant in Jackson. Floods have damaged the pumps of the main local water plants and insufficient water pressure, which affects the daily water and fire water for 180,000 residents in the city of Jackson and surrounding areas.

The local situation has received Washington's attention. The White House announced the use of federal resources to resolve this crisis. Mississippi also launched the National Guard to help distribute water to tens of thousands of Jackson residents.

The authorities have begun to repair the pump, but the public must now rely on the bottled water sent by the distribution center to live. It is reported that residents can only receive two boxes of water at a time.

80 % of the local residents of Jackson are African -American, and poverty is very common. For many years, it has encountered countless large and small water crisis. However, this time it is particularly serious. Many residents have been available in clean water in the past week.

Thompson, 41 -year -old Jackson resident, said: "I can't cook or brush my teeth at will." Jones, a 55 -year -old resident, said that she ran several distribution centers in the city to get enough water to assist those neighbors who couldn't go out.

Retirees Edwardz blamed Jackson's chaos on the municipal government officials. She said, "I hope we will not fall as if Flint." From 2014 to 2016, Flint had a tap water system contaminated with lead.

According to the US "New York Times" website, climate change is pushing the United States' clean and safe drinking water. This week, the flood broke the old water factory in Jackson, Mississippi, causing more than 150,000 people to have no drinking water; this is the latest example, indicating that the United States is aging water treatment plants and pipelines that have been used for decades. How quickly paralyzed the impact of climate warming.

Mikhail Chest, a professor of civil, environment and sustainable engineering at Arizona University, said: "The crisis is in front of us. Compared to our speed of adjusting the infrastructure, climate change is too fast."

At the beginning of this summer, the eastern part of Kentucky was severely attacked by the flood, which destroyed the water pipe covering the entire area, causing more than 25,000 people to break the water, and some people even broke the water for several weeks.

From the Bay of Mexico to the east coast, today the violent hurricane often affects water supply, forcing thousands of people to drink water for a few days or weeks after the storm passed, or snap up bottled water.

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