Gov. Tate Reeves said he can't say when Mississippi's capital city will have clean, plentiful drinking water on tap again. Read the latest update.
"After the briefing I just received, things are not significantly worse today than they were yesterday," Reeves said Tuesday afternoon after meetings at the city's O.B. Curtis treatment plant and talking with Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba."They're not significantly better, but we are seeing some progress and have some plans in place to see some more progress.
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