'We're living in a nightmare': Jackson university students take online classes, leave campus amid city's ongoing water crisis
A city of 180,000 people in the USA without running water makes the USA sound 3rd worldish .... they should fix the water in Jackson MS.
'We're living in a nightmare': Jackson University S
tudents take online classes, leave campus amid city's ongoing water crisis
By Emma Tucker, CNN
Updated 1738 GMT (0138 HKT) September 4, 2022
Many Jackson State University students returned home this week while others are being forced to make difficult adjustments on campus due to the city's ongoing water crisis.
ust 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.
Water in this US city is so dirty, boiling it doesn't make it usable 01:57
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.
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