Residents distribute cases of water at Grove Park Community Center in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 3, 2022 (September 4 in Manila). Jackson is enduring days without clean running water, with authorities urging those who still had supplies to shower with their mouths closed. The city, where 80 percent of the population is Black and poverty is rife, has been experiencing recurring water crises for years. But this week's ordeal plunged Jackson into an emergency, with days of major flooding disrupting the operation of a critical but aging water treatment plant. AFP PHOTO
Jackson, United States: With an increasingly acute crisis leaving many residents of Mississippi's capital without drinkable water, soldiers in fatigues have been called in to help, using forklifts and diggers to unload huge pallets of bottled water for distribution to those in dire need.
