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The Flint water crisis was a 2010s public health crisis which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria. [2]
Michigan residents plagued by Flint water crisis face mounting bills for water they're afraid to use. May 23, 2024 at 9:48 AM. Earlier this month, the city of Flint, Michigan, quietly mailed out ...
The state of Michigan has committed to finally remove the toxic lead pipes remaining at hundreds of homes in Flint, a lingering threat exposed earlier this year by Scripps News.
FLINT — For the first time since the water crisis began in 2014, a presidential campaign event was held in Flint Tuesday with no mention of the lead poisoning of the city's drinking water supply
Also creating the songs "Crow's Feet" and "We Gotta Help Ourselves" to raise money toward the current water crisis happening in the city; Flint was home to MC Breed, the first commercially successful rapper to come from the Midwest. Flint was where rock band Grand Funk Railroad was formed in 1969.
The deal by Veolia North America and Flint residents comes on top of $26.3 million in previous settlements with the company, and $626 million from the state of Michigan and other parties.
(A 2019 study prompted by the state of Michigan found the outbreak may be associated with the Flint water emergency but that, regardless, there was an ineffective public health response to the ...
Flint built its first water treatment plant (now defunct) in 1917. The city built a second plant in 1952. [2] At the time of Flint's population peak and economic height (when the city was the center of the automobile industry), Flint's plants pumped 100 million gallons (380,000 m 3) of water per day.