As a water shortage ballooned into a crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, a leak grew bigger, gouging out a swimming pool-size crater in the earth.

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As a water shortage ballooned into a crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, a leak grew bigger, gouging out a swimming pool-size crater in the earth.