In unrelenting heat, this small Arkansas town hasn’t had clean water for 3 weeks

Helena-West Helena, a small town in east central Arkansas, is set to hit 98 degrees next week after several days of temperatures stretching into the 90s. And that comes on top of three weeks without clean water.

Seventy miles south of Memphis, the 9,000 residents in a  town Mark Twain once called “one of the prettiest situations on the Mississippi” have been under a boil water alert since the end of June.