Flint’s Water Crisis Started 5 Years Ago. It’s Not Over.

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Flint’s Water Crisis Started 5 Years Ago. It’s Not Over.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

On April 25, 2014, a group of smiling officials in Flint, Mich., stood in front of television cameras, held their glasses aloft and toasted the switch to the city’s new water source, the Flint River.

“Here’s to Flint!” Dayne Walling, the mayor, said, taking a gulp of river water.

The Flint water crisis was born that day. Almost immediately, Flint residents began telling their elected officials that there was something wrong with the water, which smelled terrible, tasted like metal and seemed to give them skin rashes. They confronted elected officials outside City Hall, hoisting bottles full of rust-colored water from their taps, only to be told, again and again, that the water was fine.

The water was not fine. Flint officials had failed to add needed corrosion controls to the river water. Lead from the city’s old pipes leached into the water, causing alarmingly high lead levels in the blood of many residents. The outcry that followed forced a change in the city’s leadership, criminal charges against state and local officials and a yearslong effort to replace Flint’s dangerous lead pipes.

That's criminal. It's frustrating that no one is jail yet.

 

[DEAD7]

Gov. gonna Gov.
Imagine a private company doing this five years ago... they'd no longer exist, and the residents would be paid in full.

 

[mc_brew]

Gov. gonna Gov.
Imagine a private company doing this five years ago... they'd no longer exist, and the residents would be paid in full.

 

[DEAD7]

@ADevilYouKhow Don't be mad at me or the private sector, be mad at the government.

 

[Shogun]

Seems to be an indictment on all Americans, rather than just politicians. If we, as a nation, actually gave a shyt there would be movement.
We don't, though.