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In homes with copper pipes, the median water lead level dropped from 3.0 micrograms per liter (μg/L) to <1 μg/L; galvanized steel service lines dropped from a median water lead level of 7.2 μg/L to 1.9 μg/L, and lead service lines dropped from a median water lead level of 9.9 μg/L to 2.3 μg/L. [172] 1 μg/L is equivalent to 1 part per ...
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 ...
#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 Town is an eight episode American documentary television series that was released on Netflix on March 2, 2018. [1] [2] [3] The documentary focuses on the thoughts and conflicted emotions of police officers serving to protect urban areas of Flint, Michigan struggling with poverty, crime, financially strapped public services and the Flint water crisis.
Flint water crisis lawsuit created legal precedent. In 2016, I became the lead plaintiff in Mays v. Snyder, a lawsuit I and others brought against the state and some individuals in an attempt to ...
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When Copeny was 8 years old, she wrote a letter to the President Barack Obama in order to draw attention to the water crisis in her hometown of Flint, Michigan. [1] [2] Her letter prompted a response from the president, who said that "letters from kids like you are what make me so optimistic about the future". [3]
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