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  2. 10 years after Flint’s lead water crisis began, a lack of ...

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    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 ...

  3. Flint water crisis - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. State vows to remove toxic pipes at hundreds of Flint homes ...

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    The lead and galvanized steel service lines connecting homes to the city’s drinking water supply were originally supposed to be eliminated over four years ago. ... attention to its tainted water ...

  5. Firm announces $25M settlement over role in Flint, Michigan ...

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    A second contractor said Thursday that it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan's lead-contaminated water scandal. In July, the engineering firm Lockwood, Andrews ...

  6. Water pollution - Wikipedia

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    Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses. [1]: 6 It is usually a result of human activities. Water bodies include lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs and groundwater. Water pollution results when contaminants mix with these water bodies. Contaminants can come from ...

  7. Lead contamination in Washington, D.C., drinking water

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    In October 2004, Edwards co-authored an article in the Journal of the American Water Works Association that linked chloramine use with greatly increased lead leaching. [31] A report commissioned by the D.C. Council released on December 8, 2004 faulted the federal government's regulation of the city's water supply as a factor in the lead ...

  8. Walkerton E. coli outbreak - Wikipedia

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    The Walkerton E. coli outbreak was the result of a contamination of the drinking water supply of Walkerton, Ontario, Canada, with E. coli and Campylobacter jejuni bacteria. . The water supply was contaminated as a result of improper water treatment following heavy rainfall in late April and early May 2000, that had drawn bacteria from the manure of nearby cattle used to fertilize crops into ...

  9. More cancers linked to tainted water at Camp Lejeune ... - AOL

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    Drinking water at Camp Lejeune was heavily contaminated with a number of cancer-causing industrial chemicals, including trichloroethylene or TCE, vinyl chloride and benzene, from 1953 to 1985.