Jackson Residents Sue City, Siemens Over Unsafe Drinking Water

Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, have filed a class-action lawsuit against the city, current and past officials, and two engineering companies over failures and neglect that left them without safe drinking water.

The complaint was filed on Monday in federal court in Jackson. The residents are seeking monetary damages and demanding that the city replace the lead pipes in its water system. They claim issues with the city’s water system date back years, noting that residents had already been under a boil-water notice for a month before the city’s primary water plant failed in August. It was the fourth such notice issued this year.

Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba, former mayor Tony Yarber, as ...