Residents of the capital city of the U.S. state of Mississippi are dealing with a crisis that has left residents without clean running water.

Schools have been forced to close, businesses are struggling, and in some cases parents haven’t had clean water to mix baby formula.

Now there are reports that authorities are running out of bottled water to hand out.

CGTNs Jim Spellman reports.

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