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Apr 27, 2024 · Flint water crisis, human-made public health crisis (April 2014–June 2016) involving the municipal water supply system of Flint, Michigan. Tens of thousands of Flint residents were exposed to dangerous levels of lead, and outbreaks of Legionnaire disease killed at least 12 people and sickened dozens more.
Apr 24, 2024 · FLINT, Mich. — Ten years ago, smiling politicians posed for cameras while pushing a button, swapping the main tap water source for this majority-Black, impoverished city to the Flint River —...
Apr 25, 2024 · Ten years ago, a water crisis began in Flint, Mich. Lead tainted the drinking water. A decade later, people are still asking if the water is safe to drink. Michigan Public's Steve Carmody...
Apr 26, 2024 · Almost a decade ago, pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha took to a podium in Flint, Mich. and demanded that the world pay attention to an unfolding water crisis.. The city of Flint was near bankruptcy ...
Nov 10, 2021 · 10 November 2021. Reuters. A US judge has approved a $626m (£467m) settlement for victims of the 2014-15 lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Most of the money will go to the city's children...
Apr 22, 2024 · The Flint water tower stands at the City of Flint Water Plant, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) They know that Flint is a place that still struggles. The population has fallen by some 20,000 in the past decade, leaving abandoned houses as targets for arsonists. Almost 70% of children live in poverty, and many struggle in school.
Nov 10, 2021 · Flint, a poor, majority-Black city, struggled for years to find clean drinking water after the city switched its water system in 2014 to save $5 million. Nine former state officials were...
