Approximately 10,000 customers in south Jackson, Byram and Terry served by Jackson wells are under a boil water notice after a water main repair caused a loss of pressure.
The areas affected — limited to those on well water — are Byram and Terry west of I-55 South; Siwell Road addresses with the zip code 39272 and 39212; (2200-4699) Raymond Road, 39212; Cedar Hills, Oak Creek and Will-o-wood subdivisions; Pecan Acres subdivision; and Byramdale Estates subdivision.
The precautionary boil water advisory will remain in effect until further notice.
When a loss of pressure occurs, contaminants can leech into a system.
All customers are advised to boil their drinking water until adequate pressure is restored to the system.
Water should be brought to a rolling boil for one minute for cooking or baking, making ice cubes, taking medication, brushing teeth, washing food, mixing baby formula or food, mixing juices or drinks, feeding pets, washing dishes and all other consumption.
Residents will be notified immediately when the advisory is lifted.
For more information, customers may call 601-960-2723 during business hours or 601-960-1778 (or 601-960-1875) after 4 p.m. and on weekends.

Over 50,000 households in Mombasa have no access to clean water and sanitation, two NGOs have said.
Maji Na Ufanisi and Mombasa Water Action Group said out of a population of over 1.2 million, 25 per cent relies on water vendors.
Simon Kazungu, program officer at Maji na Ufanisi said those without access walk over a kilometre or more than 30 minutes to get just five litres of water per day.
"Only 27 per cent of Mombasa has access to sewer or septic tank infrastructure.
Access to safe drinking water is an essential element of sustainable development, central to the goal of poverty reduction," Kazungu said.
Mombasa gets 43,000 cubic metres of water daily against a demand of 182,000 cubic metres.. "There is need for ensuring that clean and safe water is accessible to all," Kazungu said.
"We call for development of county water resources management strategy that assesses water situations," Kazungu said.
HAKI Africa Programme Officer Francis Auma said water cartels in the county are to be blame for perennial scarcity.
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She said although 64.1 per cent of Nigerians had access to improved drinking water sources, North-East states were, however, lagging behind with 52.4 per cent, while South-West states top the chart with 87.3 per cent of its residents having access to improved water sources.
"About two out of every three households use improved water sources, while a little more than one-third use improved sanitation compared to 58.5 percent and 31 per cent respectively in 2011.
According to the report, overwhelming majority representing 90.8 per cent of households in Nigeria, drink water contaminated by faeces and other impure substances like Ecoli.
She said it was a known fact that water-borne diseases, such as diarrheal had been the leading cause of hospital admissions, especially among under-five children.
The UNICEF official said access to basic water and sanitation would promote wellbeing of citizens and reduce preventable diseases and deaths among the populace.
According to her, the MICS report, carried out in 2017 by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in collaboration with UNICEF, shows the country’s progress and lapses in key areas of development.
Mrs Elizabeth Ugoh told NAN that the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, was working with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to enforce the National Standard for Drinking Water Quality.
Ugoh, a Deputy Director, Water Quality Control and Sanitation in the ministry said, "the ministry is calling on all Nigerians drinking water from borehole and other sources to regularly test their water in laboratories across the country to reduce consuming unwholesome water.
According to her, six new laboratories are being constructed in the six geo-political zones by the Federal Government to improve water quality and standard in the country.
It would be recalled that UNICEF had called on the media to use data journalism to help highlight lapses in development indices and the overall goal of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

She said although 64.1 per cent of Nigerians had access to improved drinking water sources, North-East states were, however, lagging behind with 52.4 per cent, while South-West states top the chart with 87.3 per cent of its residents having access to improved water sources.
“About two out of every three households use improved water sources, while a little more than one-third use improved sanitation compared to 58.5 percent and 31 per cent respectively in 2011.
According to the report, overwhelming majority representing 90.8 per cent of households in Nigeria, drink water contaminated by faeces and other impure substances like Ecoli.
She said it was a known fact that water-borne diseases, such as diarrheal had been the leading cause of hospital admissions, especially among under-five children.
The UNICEF official said access to basic water and sanitation would promote wellbeing of citizens and reduce preventable diseases and deaths among the populace.
According to her, the MICS report, carried out in 2017 by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in collaboration with UNICEF, shows the country’s progress and lapses in key areas of development.
Mrs Elizabeth Ugoh told NAN that the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, was working with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to enforce the National Standard for Drinking Water Quality.
Ugoh, a Deputy Director, Water Quality Control and Sanitation in the ministry said, “the ministry is calling on all Nigerians drinking water from borehole and other sources to regularly test their water in laboratories across the country to reduce consuming unwholesome water.
According to her, six new laboratories are being constructed in the six geo-political zones by the Federal Government to improve water quality and standard in the country.
It would be recalled that UNICEF had called on the media to use data journalism to help highlight lapses in development indices and the overall goal of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Water Resources Expert, Dr Osman Alhassan, says the threat of water scarcity, due to climate change and the pollution water bodies, calls for a water harvesting culture. “We need to do a lot concerning water harvesting and I think it was about time we made efforts to separate water use categories where for example we can begin with good water harvesting at the community level and district level and we could use that water for other things than household and drinking,” he said. Commenting on the Ghana Water Company’s plan to soon begin rationing water supply due to the dry season, Dr Alhassan said although some homes already harvest water, there was a need to for national approach, complemented by modern technology and by-laws. Communications Director of the Ghana Water Company, Stanley Mantey, recently said the rate of evaporation of water…

68 per cent: Electrical power generation accounts for nearly 70 per cent of Canada’s water use.
In Nunavut, for example, more than 60 per cent of children live in households that are food insecure.
The majority of it ends up in landfills or the ocean, where there’s an estimated 100 million tons of plastic debris threatening the health and safety of marine life.
The debris in the patch accumulates because the vast majority is not biodegradable.
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The millennium drought has broken but good water habits have persisted in Melbourne and Brisbane, where residents use about half the amount of water used by Perth residents.
Monash University researchers studying water consumption in water-sensitive cities over the past 14 years have found residents in Melbourne to be the country’s most prudent, while Perth has emerged as the most profligate.
The results will be presented this week at the Ecocity World Summit in Melbourne, an international forum headlined by former US vice-president Al Gore addressing issues relating to planning, cities and the environment.
Australia is considered to be at high risk of water scarcity, withdrawing 40 to 80 per cent of water relative to the available annual renewable supply.
“People saw quite a browning off of the suburbs … people couldn’t water lawns, and so that’s fed into the cultural imagination,” Dr Lindsay said of Melbourne and Brisbane during the drought from 2006 and 2010.
The study tested more than 5000 families and households and found Melbourne residents were still conscious of their water use after drought and accepted water-saving as part of city life.
“We live in the inner city and the drought didn’t really affect us, but now that we’ve got a garden we wanted something that would survive a drought,” Melbourne resident Susie Singh said from her largely paved garden in the heart of Melbourne.
“People just sink bores,” Dr Lindsay said.
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USAID Afghanistan – Jobs Creation Program (AJCP) with WASH component.
USAID Afghanistan – Jobs Creation Program (AJCP) with WASH component, June 19, 2017 Link to more information.
As the economy grows and expands, providing access to potable water and the adoption of badly needed phytosanitary standards can begin to be instituted which will benefit multiple industry and service sectors.
Further, safe, clean water and sanitary facilities are critical to value chain development as well as conducting commerce in high population urban and peri-urban areas.
As the Afghan workforce becomes better educated as a result of workplace interventions and education on standards for proper sanitation and hygiene practices, the households and ultimately communities will respond by adopting new and sustained hygienic practices.
These practices will help reduce wide-spread disease, diminishing workplace absenteeism and ensure a healthy and capable workforce.
The WASH supply and value chain will benefit from and contribute to the growth of new employment opportunities and make major contributions to these value chains that rely on clean water, hygienic conditions and sanitary environments to achieve value chain development are met.
Through this APS, USAID aims to promote wider adoption of improved sanitation facilities within households, workplaces, and other private sector facilities and encourage new and innovative WASH technology utilization.
These initiatives help support ‘best of class’ business practices that demand adoption of international standards, including hygienic business practices, especially where high-value fruits and vegetables enter the global food chain.
Through this APS, USAID particularly aims to develop domestic markets for improved sanitation facilities within households, workplaces, and other private sector facilities.

Goutam Surana started Eco365 to provide water conservation solutions for households, saving over 100 crore liters of water so far.
Our products bring efficiency by using less water from existing tap fixtures without compromising on their rinsing ability.
Saving up to 90 percent water The products at Eco365 range from water-saving aerators and adaptors to water-free urinal solutions.
The water-saving adaptors and aerators for washbasins can reduce up to 90 percent water consumption.
Regular showers flow at 15–20 litres per minute.
The Green Toilet Bank, also called Tank Bank, allows one to save up to three litres of water on every flush without any sacrifice on performance.
A concept popular in European countries, it is now considered a good solution to save water in Indian offices as well.
In the former, the gravity-fed design moves urine through the system without using or wasting any water, thereby saving 100 percent of the energy associated with traditional flush urinals.
The latter solution involves retrofitting existing urinals into water-free ones.
A retrofitted tap could annually save 20,000–30,000 litres.

KMC to install water meters in households of Wards 1-6.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will install water meters in every household in Wards 1 to 6 respectively in North Kolkata to assess wastage of drinking water.
The funding agencies like Asian Development Bank had suggested imposition of water tax in the city.
Banerjee said not only would water tax not be imposed but also stressed that supply of filtered water would be augmented.
Accordingly, the KMC took steps to augment water supply.
So, wastage of water will be stopped.
A senior civic official said that when roadside taps were there in the city, nearly 10 million gallon of filtered water was wasted daily.
After the abolition of roadside taps, the wastage has been reduced to a great extent.
Once the KMC has this figured, it will be easier to stop the wastage.
He said that in the next few years, there would be no water scarcity in the city including some pockets where there is a shortage for various reasons.