>Why is so difficult to get safe drinking water in the US? There was a fire at the water treatment plant in Jackson about a year and a half ago. It took the m

>Why is so difficult to get safe drinking water in the US? There was a fire at the water treatment plant in Jackson about a year and a half ago. It took the main water pumps offline, leaving the city with only the smaller emergency backup pumps. The city refused to repair the damage. The EPA stepped in, but a bit too late. >Jackson has 45 days to tell the EPA how and when it will repair damage caused by a fire that broke out last April at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of noncompliance to the city for failing to repair or replace a damaged electrical panel at the plant. In addition to telling EPA when and how repairs will be made, the city also must meet with the federal regulatory agency to “show cause why the EPA should not initiate legal proceedings” against the city as a result. The notice comes about nine months after a fire broke out at the O.B. Curtis plant, shutting down the plant’s high-service pumps. During a November 8, 2021 inspection of the facility, “the pumps remained out of service, with no target date by the city to put the pumps back into service,” the letter states. “The loss of the pumps has caused multiple elevated tanks to be low or empty and has caused certain areas of the distribution system to have sustained low water pressure.” https://www.wlbt.com/2022/01/28/epa-cites-jackson-failing-repair-water-plant-following-april-fire/ https://www.wlbt.com/2022/01/28/epa-cites-jackson-failing-re... The emergency backup pumps eventually failed too, and the city had no water.