Motorists traveling west on Pearl Street in downtown Jackson are relegated to one lane to avoid the huge hole dug, where work on a broken water line continues, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
After years of struggling with home wells running dry, Amanda Barkley and her neighbors near the Falkner community on the Benton-Tippah county line hope soon to have ample, clean water as Mississippi prepares to spend over $1 billion in federal money on water and sewerage statewide.
