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The Flint water crisis is a public health crisis that started in 2014 after the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, was contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria. [2]
On April 25, 2014, then-Mayor Dayne Walling and other officials toasted with glasses of water to celebrate switching from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River, part of a cost-cutting move ...
The switch, which took place April 25, 2014, triggered a cascade of problems with the water quality in Flint. Lead, a neurotoxin, leached from the city's aging pipes and into the water that flowed ...
Thousands of Flint residents are dealing with overdue water bills as the city threatens to place liens on their property and expose homeowners to the possibility of foreclosure if they fail to pay.
FILE - The Flint water plant tower is pictured on Jan. 6, 2022, in Flint, Mich. A judge dismissed criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the Flint water crisis, months after ...
Walters became known for her role in exposing the Flint water crisis. [4] In 2014, her children started to suffer from several medical issues, like rashes, hair dropping blurry vision, and enlarged kidney. [1] Walters started to lose her eyelashes. [5] She then started to make the link with water that started to change color and to flow brown.
#JusticeForFlint was a charity event held on February 28, 2016, addressing the ongoing Flint water crisis in the U.S. state of Michigan.With the victims of the lead poisoning being predominantly black, the political scandal has been regarded as an example of racial inequalities in the U.S., and the charity event has been associated with the Black Lives Matter campaign.
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