Residents of Jackson, Mississippi have filed a class action lawsuit against the city and engineering firms after a recent water crisis left thousands of people without drinkable and running water.
The suit, filed late on Sept. 16 in federal court (pdf), alleges that Jackson’s water supply has been long neglected and ultimately led to it being completely shut down in late August, leaving over 150,000 people in the city and about 30,000 in the surrounding areas without running water.
