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Low Water Disrupts Industry Along Lower Mississippi River

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Plummeting water levels in the lower Mississippi River are projected to drop even further in the weeks ahead, a projection shows, dampening the region’s economic activity and potentially threatening jobs in one of the country’s poorest …

Water Scarce for Hundreds in Northern Arkansa County

Hundreds of families are running low on water in parts of northern Arkansas’ Newton County as maintenance problems and drought strain rural water associations. In addition to the hot, dry, weather, a pump broke last at a well last month, …