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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 ...
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 ...
Christina Sayyae, of Flint, puts on an outfit in memory of the miscarriages that occurred during the Flint water crisis as people get ready to march to Flint City Hall during the 10th anniversary ...
Dotson was 13 when the state-appointed Flint city manager tried to save money by switching the municipal water source to the Flint River in April 2014 without ensuring it was treated with adequate ...
This is not the first time there have been mass mailings threatening liens in Flint’s post-water-crisis world. In 2017, the city sent 8,002 notices to customers in arrears. Back then ...
In 2015 and 2016, the Michigan DEQ was criticized for its role in the Flint water crisis; agency officials repeatedly dismissed citizens' concerns about water quality in Flint, leading to a delay in addressing lead poisoning in the city's water supply.
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
The reservoir was constructed, originally, as a water supply for Flint, and to move the river through the city more quickly to dilute sewage. [4] By 1967, though, the city purchased its drinking water from the City of Detroit, via a pipeline from Lake Huron, and only used the reservoir as an emergency back-up water supply.