(Edmund D. Fountain | The New York Times) From left, Kris Granger, Victor Evans, Tyisin Peoples, Terun Moore, and Joshua Freeman distribute water to local residents at the Sykes Park Community Center in Jackson, Miss. on Aug. 30, 2022. More than 150,000 people in Mississippi’s capital were without access to safe drinking water on Tuesday, as officials confronted what they described as the “massively complicated task” of distributing bottled water and devising a plan to restore service.