During Sunday services in a small, post-industrial city near the coast of Alabama, parishioners sometimes use bottled water to flush the toilets.
At Sure Word Outreach Ministries in Prichard, a city of about 19,000 just north of Mobile, low water pressure is just a fact of life, said pastor Archie Rankin.
After decades of mismanagement, lawsuits, federal raids and criminal indictments at the Prichard water and sewer board, leaky pipes cause low water pressure, and sewage floods people’s yards…