Embarrassing

How can we claim to be a world power when the people can't even have clean fresh water for over a month. Yes spare me the but Mississippi jokes. Even the drumpf named "shit hole" countries can get this figured out. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/month-without-water-jackson-mississippi-struggling-residents-fear-next-outage-n1261016

Wow. A month. That has to be aggravating

Just look up the decline of Camden, NJ, the average life expectancy on the Lakota reservation or all the tent cities in Florida where a bunch of homeless vets live in the woods. There’s all sorts of these little embarrassments across this great nation.

Here is one more for the "wealthiest country in the world" crowd

Many rural households in America don’t have access to safe sewage systems. In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

In 2004, Flowers founded the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise (acre), a nonprofit focussed on poverty, and started finding people to teach her the basics of soil chemistry and septic-tank design. With a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, she launched a county-wide survey, going door-to-door and asking residents if they were having trouble with waste management. One woman had a stain running around the walls from sewage that had flooded her house; another had been forced to take out a loan to remove her carpet. “When I was growing up, we had raw sewage running back into our house, but we thought it was just a plumbing problem,” Flowers told me. “It was only after we did the house-to-house survey that we realized these were not isolated situations. One reason it’s been hidden for so long is because this is not something people just talk about. Who sits around and says, ‘Oh, the sewage ran back into my house today’?”

Floods carry sewage across people’s lawns and into their living areas, bringing with it the risk of viruses, bacteria, and parasites that thrive in feces. Studies have found E. coli and fecal coliform throughout the Black Belt, in wells and in public waters. A United Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, visiting in 2017, said that the sewage problem was unlike anything else he had encountered in the developed world. “This is not a sight that one normally sees,” he said.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/the-heavy-toll-of-the-black-belts-wastewater-crisis