Jackson, Mississippi Went Without Clean Water for Over a Month 

National or state? This looks like a state problem. Federal can't touch this

Thank OBAMA for taking care of it 😊

Is that the place the water ignites because of the fracking?

@@Appel_sap there are many places in the US like that

@@Moreno2774 trump could have been the hero but he ignored it too

One in 10 houses in America is also fed still by a lead pipe in the system lines at one point of delivery.. its reported in news but nobody talks about it. Also miami has nuclear plant leaks in their local water.

@@dertythegrower wow thats insane

You can try tapping the underground water I did that for my house

@@dertythegrower lol no wonder people from Florida are crazy 😭😭😭 on a serious note, it's crazy that the news would rather focus on Mr. Potato Head or Eminem getting cancelled then people actually suffering in this country.

@@dertythegrower lead pipes are not a huge problem if anti corrosion agents are supplied by treatment plants. What happened in Flint is they failed to do so when switching to more corrosive water.

A great power in decline. The 250 year cycle is coming up.

Americans better do like the Russians. Reject water, embrace Vodka.

Says ppl in 3rd world countries smh

As a fellow Singaporean living in America, I can tell you that years of indoctrination into "American exceptionalism", unregulated capitalism and systemic racism have led to a broken country hanging on to power by swinging the biggest stick in town. Be grateful for a functioning government that actually serves its citizens. Not all democracies are created equal.

@@VGI4NI everyone is allowed an opinion

No one will do that because Jackson will not pay them or their bills.

@@lptvboy follow the money

Follow the money. The city of Jackson had the money years ago to replace the system. You get what you vote for !

people would rather complain and blame race

Blm should give their earnings to them. Would be nice.

If you only knew how bad Jackson was, you would think it was a third world country. I’m not embellishing

@@Alex-rl4uy It is a third world country. Wherever you have majority Afro-American's, you will have these problems.

@@Alex-rl4uy yeah its bad. Its amazing how its simultaneously a “state capitol” and a ghost town thats been abandoned and in ruins for 20 years. And even with an almost entirely black city government they still find a way to blame the white people.

@@Chamomile369 no we blame the people and mayors before then who didn’t fix the piping who happen to be white same way y’all white people blame black people for getting wrongful killed by police

@@kyreneeetc1020 democrat mayor since the 70's and only black mayors since mid 90's. Still a crap hole town but its white people's fault? Ok clown

On god ju

Actually, before Katrina. Since the ice storm in 93, the water system has been terrible

Based on this video .... It's been before Katrina in 2005.

What she said 💯

Exactly!

He has been put on notice but he don’t care

TY! You are 💯 correct. You stated this much better than I could have. It's no secret what's going on. People just refuse to admit it or look the other way. Gov Reeves is a disgrace.

@@edgybarbie77 Thanks. I hate what I see going on around here and it's vert plain to see. I'm an outsider. I moved here in 2011. First thing I noticed were the schools. The public schools are suffering, but look at these private schools over here in Flowood. Public schools can barely afford to provide these kids with modern technology while 16 year olds at Hartfield are driving Mercedes. I have watched that campus triple in size since I moved here, while the public schools are using out-dated materials and sitting in broken desks. It's pretty obvious who matters in this state and who doesn't. Would be nice if they saw investing in kid's futures as worthwhile, but only worthwhile if you are a certain kind of kid from a certain kind of family. They are lifting up those who don't need it and keeping those who do down so they can complain and blame them for their failures later on. It's the equivalent of holding someone under water and blaming them for their inability to breathe.

Hi, Ms. Upshaw can you help me with a small donation? May our GOD bless us!!

Still is

We still are.

@@katmeowcer5340 How's that even possible ?!?! still not fixed ?

Well.its a blue state so who could be surprised

Damn yall we all have to share the light in shining where the cracks are in this system as a whole! We all heard about Flint across the world but Jackson Ms gets looked over time and time again

Mississippi went to the federal government to have medical marijuana repealed. Something the citizens voted for. I'll remind you Mississippi is the only state legally allowed to grow Marijuana for scientific purposes at one of the state colleges. And they still repealed it. To say they don't care is an understatement.

I was just about to say that I live in flint mi

Im laughing in lead rn

@@XCVIIIPHARAOH poor soul

@@XCVIIIPHARAOH rip

no

Blue Gold

@Joseph Arden This planet and all other animals couldn’t get that lucky.

Water isn't scarce. The government makes it scarce.

It's just Jackson because they're a shithole and all other cities around them have water and good pipes and infrastructure.

@@dorkle9085 companies like nestlé make it scarce

Yes! Lean on your city and state officials to fix it or vote them out. It’s not about race; It’s about mismanagement.

Why was crime so high? Were there economic opportunities abound as well?

Right. Everyone moved over to Flowood and Brandon and the state government took all their give a damn to that side while ya'll suffer.

@@SmackYaMama I’m 37 years old. By the time I started going to Jackson regularly in the late 90s, the city was a great place to visit. I’m from Greenwood Mississippi which is about middle ways between Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee. Those were our two major cities so to speak. From an outsiders perspective I’d say that there was plenty of legitimate economic opportunities in Jackson but Jackson’s city officials were incompetent. Jackson has the worst potholes than any place I’ve ever been and before the snow storm that hit a few weeks ago, Jackson was always having boil water notices. Again even with legal economic opportunities, some of the youngsters were still too wild. Jackson has been in the 10 ten most dangerous cities for years. When there’s an uptick in violent crime the people who are taxpayers move elsewhere.

@@dianeupshaw5337 yep. Some have moved to Madison as well. Madison’s police department don’t play. If I remember correctly the previous governor wouldn’t even stay at the governor’s mansion in Jackson; he stayed in Madison instead.

@@BT_Spanky What does the local government expect in light of their own neglect? They watch an entire city fall and suffer from the comfort of their gated subdivisions miles away. It's a quiet genocide. The will of the people of Jackson has been beaten to the point of complacency. Something needs to wake them. If not this, I'm not sure what.

That Part!!!!! 👁👁

why are you quoting george carlin?

@@bungalowbob9629 Because of the words in the quote. They apply to this situation? You stupid?

Real talk. They mayor and the governor is part of the club.

Its a pretty poor state

@@Student0Toucher its a pretty poor country!

@@auwei Considering American wealth could buy up many countries its not that poor

@@Student0Toucher Trump tried, Puerto Rico didn't get sold and Greenland wasn't either

@@LeroyBrown Lol what that has nothing to do with America being rich or not

No bud lol exaggerating isn’t good

It's not. This is a difficult, multi-faceted issue. Vice left out a large portion of the problem: the city isn't billing a large number of residents for water use. And this isn't a new problem. The city is providing a free service (by not fixing billing issues) to a large number of residents so it cannot fund its infrastructure. The fact that Vice left this out shows both bias and laziness in reporting. Even if billing were fixed there'd be a great number of problems, but it illustrates a failure of city leadership they chose not to highlight.

I rode the storm with you homie 💪

Then you definitely couldn't have survived a few years of my life, started building a house and only had the money fore the shell, we had no where else to live but there, no water, no electricity, the only blessing was we have a natural spring on our property to collect water but I do live in Michigan so in winter I had to pull sleds daily. I would never suggest start building with only some money and refuse to take a loan.

I’m still trying to figure out what powet is.

Weaponize Weather Project Blue Beam.

Ditto

We are good now they took the boil water notice off but some people still don’t have water

@@kyreneeetc1020 thank you JESUS. 🙌🏽

I sure will...♂️🍆🚬🌈

Ppl need get motivated stop looking for handouts.

@@Davido50 Your comment doesn’t even make sense. What does losing water have to do with a lack of motivation? Make it make sense.

You’re so right. Vice is truly the best, unbiased media company, working hard to enlighten us ignorant folks.

@@aus-li I just feel the same way they do on a lot of our issues we are facing as a society today. Harder to make a difference than make a living... But doing BOTH in the way they do is amazing

Get out of your house and do something fun with your life

Beat me to it by 11 seconds, god damnit.

Flint Michigan has gotten much better to bad Obama didn’t pay any notice at first, Im glad Biden wants to work on infrastructure

@@Student0Toucher we will see Biden’s words don’t mean nun until something is actually done

@@Student0Toucher bruh they still don't have water

I live in Brazil. E. Coli is a standard in our water. You can smell chore and taste it. And we have this water being delivered once a week to the households. Just for the record - I live in over 3mln population city, now spend 2 weeks with no water at all and well - it's not a one time situation .

Mouth ? Month??? Jesus people

Rain is also polluted brother. I reuse rain water for crops, and some states by power plants have over 300 ppm of chemicals in the local clouds, especially for coal power plants.

@@dertythegrower thanks for your input 😴

Actually we have water we just can’t drink it we taking baths thank u

The states does not control water in the city

@@georgefrancis4979 they control the disaster funds

@@georgefrancis4979 You can tell by all of these comments, that folks have the inability to distinguish between "local" and "state" government. The blame for Jacksons problems lie solely on the liberals who have been running Jackson for the last 30 + years. But, the voters will fall for the okie doke and put them right back in office and scream that everyone else is to blame for their problems.

Ask the mayor where that 90 million dollar settlement from Siemens went for “upgrading” our water meters

@@ShidaiTaino You think anyone is going to get disaster funds because of the ineptitude of the elected leaders for Jackson? Just another "victim" looking for a free ride..

He don't care bc a lot of black are in jackson

@@powerhouse8338 Maybe blacks should start voting responsibly and quit blaming others for their failures and shortcomings...

I would say many of the people are, but let's not deny that it's also a very racist state and the people of Mississippi treat Jackson so terribly because of the makeup of it's community. The more things change the more they stay the same.

@@jalicea1650 yea this sucker is super racist. Eventually these old minded folks will die off and we will be good.

This is America, our people deserve better. We spend one trillion dollars on defense a year, that's $1,000,000,000,000.00. We have nuclear weapons, eleven aircraft carrier battle groups, over 1,000,000 soldiers, but our cities don't have reliable infrastructure. It's a disgrace.

@@romanmanner As a European I can only look on in horror tbh.

@@Vortex__24 You mean West european, in the east we still have water problems

@@Krumanionec Yeah unfortunately it is not the same around our continent.

I think about Venezuela and Brazil all the time. Girl, I wish I could send you a bathtub of clean water. I live in Chicago, we have water but you have to run it through a purifier if you want to drink it.

Thank you.

Thats got to be the most common grift we hear for failed policies and politics. Compare ourselves with nations that always had a much worst standard of living then ourselves. Why not use Afghanistan as an example while we at it? Lets make a smart statement along the lines of "LOL, Afghan has never had piped potable water. Common Vice!".

Whoa. Seriously?!

@@justicejoycetv yes ma'am.. matter of fact they don't send bills out monthly. They hit and miss. Always a few months between. It didn't get like that until about 2016-17

@@TheDirtRoadKing you know Minneapolis, Minnesota did something like this for years on the electric bill. *Folks pushed back. And, now it's every other month.*

@@justicejoycetv I ended up moving to Vicksburg Ms. Because Jackson had got so CRAZY. I was living in south jackson for 10 years , bought a house there. Crime got so bad and city just in all got so bad I moved to the Ms. River. Only about 45miles west of Jackson but Alot better. I was part of Jackson, everyone knew me. I was a bouncer at clubs, restaurant operator, did community outreach with ONE CHURCH. Jackson has BAD PROBLEMS. Things that it's going to take decades to fix because it took a century to get on this bad. Streets are literally caving in the earth, crime is rampant, drug use has people like zombies in the streets, City officials are corrupt, corrupt law, ( And I'm not talking about everybody) infrastructure is so bad I don't know if it could ever be fixed. Other than that it's a great city ,a historical city. A place that I called home... But is to the point God's going to have to wipe it clean before he rebuilds it.

@@TheDirtRoadKing How does the Governor allow it given it's the capitol city? *Like, not addressing the capitol issues permits the craziness. The fact they can't even get the budget line item to fix the pipes is ludicrous.*

It's the State's responsibility to make sure infrastructure is not failing. And to provide funding to repair.

@@edgybarbie77 they don't care, people are afraid of hard choices. Tax hikes are needed to fix infrastructure if they are not getting federal funds.

@@lilcourtny08 💯

Fellow Canadian here. Listening to our cousins south of the border talk about healthcare, is like hearing a loved one try to justify their abusive relationship. “He’s right, I think universal healthcare is Sharia Marxism! They want to turn all our guns into homosexuals!”

@@michaellapalme1198 😂

You so beautiful sweetheart

Sad I remember my mom had to get water at a water station when I was small luckily we had transportation this can happen yup you right Bri Sams this why I can't trip our govt system sucks to the low core!!

I been living on Long Island for 30 years born and raised, me and my whole family been drinking the tap water since I remeber. I drink it everyday and have no health problems, and we always been upper middle class we don’t drink it cause we have too we drink it because why not. Sooo i literally have no idea what your talking about ñ.

@@MB-sj2yu You have no idea about a lot of things.

Why do u think we have the best pizza and bagels in the world it’s because of the tap water, they use to make the dough. Many long islanders moved to Florida and import this so called un drinkable water and make real New York style pizza. Not sure if you been out of state but the pizza is not the same. Do u really think resturants and pizzerías around here use Poland spring bottled water to make the dough or something 😂😂 because if your eating out or getting a drink from a soda machine it’s unfiltered tap water I promise you I’ve worked in very high end country clubs on nassua county’s Gold Coast and they use unfiltered tap water for the food too. Soo basically weather you eat a cheap slice of pizza or at country club your injesting this “undrinkable” water so called crisis, and if your on RU-vid typing I’m pretty sure your fine

@@MB-sj2yu that’s NYC, which is one of the best in the country. NYC water comes from Upstate reservoirs, Long Island water is Well water and is completely different and contaminated. Typically speaking well water is more contaminated, because pollutants seep into ground build up over time and contaminate underground aquifers.

@@ericsanford7075 I would say Long Island pizza is better then the city and unless you travel to nyc for pizza then your consuming the water from Long Island, also the New York style pizza places I went to in Florida all imported it from Long Island they told me

Or blacks can't run municipal government?

@@ZackFrisbee or republicans don't know how to govern? LITERALLY the last 10 states are run by republicans!! and they r the poorest

@@russeluc Because people who look like you exist and commit crime.

@@ZackFrisbee lol. Nice. An ignorant response as expected.

@@russeluc Keep seething 😁 did you think I was a Israel first Republican or something? 😝

You’re absolutely right it’s about race. Jackson has over 75% black population, black city council and a far-left revolutionary black mayor who was heavily influenced by his father’s ideology. This isn’t the white man’s fault or problem.

I'm from Biloxi and have lived in Jackson for 5 years and Its been steady going downhill which is a real shame because I love this city but with how it's being run and the spiking crime rate I'm glad to leave

How would the military industrial complex and its minions (lobbyists, politicians, etc...) stay filthy rich then?!

@@1988kcmo Oh god no! They'd have to eat at..at...(vomits) MCDONALDS like us COMMONERS!

Yea that’s not happening

Literally since Obama was in office smh

How does it matter? It sounds like whites segregated themselves just like how Asians, Indians ( sound Asia) and Mexicans... they all do perfectly fine tbh. How does racial demographics matter..

Yet the entire government that runs Jackson is 100% black! I grew up in Jackson

Sounds like you just want to become a victim.

We have more to go jackson has a lot of young business men and women

So you think that the car a person drives determines the quality of water infrastructure delivering their water??? How does that logic work???

I get what they saying. If you can afford a $900 a month car payment you should be able to buy your own water and save the free water for ppl who need it...

@@anniebannanie1460 Most of the local stores, even on the near outskirts of Jackson, didn’t have water.

So you don't see the state's responsibilities and failure to do the right thing not based on race? The city is in Mississippi doesn't take a rocket genius to figure out the animus of the white majority in these areas and who would get precedence. Why is Jackson suffering? Look at the demographics and compare them to the rest of the state. See any patterns? No? Then you're either blind of stupid.

Mississippi isn’t equipped to deal with anything

Pay no attention to the crisis, look! they're canceling Dr. Seuss! doesn't that piss you off? Culture war! Culture war! Culture war!

@@moppypuppy781 literally

@Ramen Lover its a joke nob jockey

The systems were put in place decades ago. These systems were created during the height of Jim Crow and these water systems put white people first and precedence of where the water should be flowing to. The system never got upgraded or changed in decades. The system isn't run by the black city council members. It's a state issue. The state denied every year the requests from the mayor and the black city council for repairing and fixing the waterline/sewage system processing plants and modernizing the infrastructure. The reason? Doesn't take a genius. Look at which cities are favored and protected then compare to the ones that are ignored and abused. How is it not a race issue? The governorship decided they don't care and the racist white majority of Mississippi agreed. Guess which side are you on? Sounds like the wrong side and coincidentally with the racists.

Nice spelling.

Dude Mississippi isn’t what you think it’s like

@@KristinkaAranova Do you live there ?

@@KristinkaAranova from all accounts ive heard its probably worse. Geographically they should be one of the richest states. The fact they aren't gives a hint of the level of corruption

Inspirational? Are you kidding? The fact that they have to help themselves because the state is a complete failure is the opposite of inspirational.

Would you let state decide if your family lives or dies? Rather would you suffer in waiting for help because the state is a failure?

@@gunsgoldandgreenery1990 You're missing the point. The "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality is why the US is such a disaster with a nonexistent safety net. It's 2021 and some cities still don't have clean water, medical debt is still a thing and the country doesn't even offer a proper maternity leave.

Well its pretty great if you're white and wealthy. Otherwise yeah... it's a shithole for most everyone else. The only people who live marginally better are areas that are deemed valuable and trust me most of us aren't allowed to live there.

Remember this when you say America is the greatest country in the world. This is not happening here in Europe. The government would not survive! It's like looking at a third world country

@@rodniestruiken1256 like looking? We are looking