‘This is no way to live’: Mississippians struggle with another water crisis

Jackson is suffering from its third water outage in two years, but neighbors and family lend one another a helping hand

The sense of dread on Christmas Eve felt all too familiar.

The faucets ran dry again. The showers produced nothing. The city of Jackson, Mississippi, plunged into its third major water outage in less than two years, crippled, leaking infrastructure withering before another bout of extreme weather.