600 Mississippi National Guardsmen to Help Distribute Water in Jackson Amid Ongoing Crisis

600 Mississippi National Guardsmen to Help Distribute Water in Jackson Amid Ongoing Crisis
A City of Jackson employee helps hand out cases of bottled water at a Mississippi Rapid Response Coalition distribution site in Jackson, Mississippi, on Aug. 31, 2022. Brad Vest/Getty Images
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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.

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