'We're living in a nightmare': Jackson university students take online classes, leave campus amid ci

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city's ongoing water crisis

Just one week after the school year began in Mississippi’s capital city, university students were faced with a crisis canceling all in-person classes and forcing them online, but this time, it wasn’t Covid-19.

Hundreds of students at Jackson State University, a historically Black university, moved into their dorms August 18 as they settled in for the new year, but many have already returned home, while others are being forced to make difficult adjustments on campus due to the city’s ongoing water crisis.

Jackson had been without reliable tap water service since Monday, when torrential rains and severe flooding helped push an already-hobbled water treatment plant to begin failing. Roughly 150,000 residents are being forced to buy water or rely on an inefficient system of bottled water pick-up sites for water to drink, cook and brush teeth as businesses and schools were shuttered.

“It’s like we’re living in a nightmare right now,” said Erin Washington, 19, a sophomore. “We can’t use the showers, the toilets don’t flush,” she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-re-living-in-a-nightmare-jackson-university-students-take-online-classes-leave-campus-amid-city-s-ongoing-water-crisis/ar-AA11rX4A

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1. Heavily minority, heavily Democratic area

In a deep red state made essentially unlivable a couple months before the midterms and the state seems in no rush to fix this. In places the tap water looks like coffee. Also hearing there were concerns about water quality in this area going back way before the recent events.

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2. Just like red hellhole TN, qpukes never allocate funds for Black areas.

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3. Too bad legislators can't be forced to "live" there until problem is fixed.

Water is life.

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4. Shithole republicans, sooner or later

Give you a shithole state.