SCHLATER • Minerva Clemon pays taxes and contributes to her Delta town. Yet this 70-year-old civil rights veteran has been scrambling for months to find money for clean drinking water, an issue her town’s mayor said he was not aware of until a Mississippi Today reporter contacted him.
“Nobody has called me,” said Mayor Jason Colquett in a phone call with Mississippi Today. “This is the first call I’ve had … I’ll look into it and see who doesn’t have water.”
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