Yes, it could happen to you. Like the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., many other U.S. cities are vulnerable to climate-change disaster

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Emerson owns the upscale Walker's Drive-In, and he said they have been spending $300 a day for ice and bottled water in the past month.
54% : The Environmental Protection Agency estimated in 2018 that would be needed over the next 20 years to maintain and improve the nation's drinking water infrastructure alone, not even counting investments needed for wastewater.
54% : Its tax base has eroded the past few decades as the population decreased -- the result of mostly white flight to suburbs that began after public schools integrated in 1970.
53% : The price index of water and sewage maintenance has increased in recent years as infrastructure continues to age across the U.S., Commerce Department and EPA data show.

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