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For years, Jackson residents endured periods of low water pressure, potentially unsafe drinking water or no water at all. All the while, state inspectors found few problems with the failing pipes that caused those problems. Now, the EPA’s watchdog division says the state’s inspections obscured the system’s failures and contributed to the Jackson Water Crisis. Eva Redamonti for ProPublica
For years, Jackson residents endured periods of low water pressure, potentially unsafe drinking water or no water at all. All the while, state inspectors found few problems with the failing pipes that caused those problems.
