A federal judge turned to Ted Henifin after infrastructure breakdowns in Mississippi’s capital city caused residents to go days and weeks without safe water last year. In an interview with The Associated Press earlier this month, he offered an insider’s look at efforts to fix the troubled water system.
FILE - Ted Henifin, the interim third-party manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to help fix the long-troubled water system of Jackson, Miss., speaks about the expansive list of reforms the city’s water department is undertaking, June 5, 2023, at the Stennis-Capitol Press Corps lunch in Jackson. In an interview, Henifin addressed the timeline for improvements to Jackson’s water system, pushback from local activists and how to price water fairly.
Last August and September, infrastructure breakdowns caused many people in Jackson to go days and weeks without safe running water. A federal judge brought Henifin from Virginia“The system is acting like what I would consider a normal water system for a city of 150,000,” Henifin said. “In the future, we shouldn’t have city-wide boil water notices.”
“I think other utilities across the country are going to look hard at the proposal as a new method of helping the lower socio-economic demographic be able to afford water,” he said. “The small staff we’ve created, the contractors that have stepped up, I just can’t walk away from that,” Henifin said.who want more of a say over water system reforms asked to join a federal lawsuit against the city for violating safe water standards.
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