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How tap water became toxic in Flint, Michigan (Credible Source #2)

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How tap water became toxic in Flint, Michigan (Credible Source #2)

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This source informs us about the events before the crisis began. We also are given an insight on what the residents of Flint Michigan think.

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How tap water became toxic in Flint, Michigan | CNN

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After high lead levels were uncovered by a local pediatrician, the state of Michigan makes changes amid lawsuits and blame.

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The EPA Did Not Act Quickly Enough to Help Flint Residents (Database Article #3)

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The EPA Did Not Act Quickly Enough to Help Flint Residents (Database Article #3)

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In this article, it talks about how politicians came to the decision to change the water supply. It alo talks about the main concerns of the Flint residents.

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The EPA Did Not Act Quickly Enough to Help Flint Residents

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Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2019. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, http%3A%2F%2Flink.galegroup.com%2Fapps%2Fdoc%2FNBKIUQ680504484%2FOVIC%3Fu%3Dpl2683%26sid%3DOVIC%26xid%3D30c7b1fb. Accessed 6 Mar. 2019. Originally published as "The EPA's Silent, Guilty Role in the Flint Water Crisis," New Republic, 22 Jan. 2016.

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Flint Water Crisis (Database Article #2)

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Flint Water Crisis (Database Article #2)

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This article discusses the start of the issue and the health risks. It also goes over how Flint is slowly recovering from the crisis, even though the water is still unsafe.

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The Flint water crisis brought attention to the country's infrastructure vulnerabilities. Alarmed by reports from Flint, activists and officials in other US cities have investigated the state of their own water systems. The Massachusetts Clean Water Trust, for example, allocated over $2 million for water-testing in Boston, which uncovered high levels of lead in the water at over 160 public schools and high levels of copper in the water at many others.

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Michigan Will No Longer Provide Free Bottled Water to Flint (Credible Source #1)

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Michigan Will No Longer Provide Free Bottled Water to Flint (Credible Source #1)

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This article discusses how politicians have cut of free water for Flint. State officials believe that the water meets federal requirements.

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"We did not cause the man-made water disaster, therefore adequate resources should continue being provided until the problem is fixed and all the lead and galvanized pipes have been replaced," she said in a statement.

Lines of cars formed outside distribution points on Friday as residents rushed to load up on the last of the free bottles.

Joyce Wilson, 62, who lives in Flint, said she did not trust the water that flows to her taps - not for drinking, bathing or even watering her garden, where she grows food. She has been visiting the free water distribution centers for two years and bringing cases to her older or ailing relatives, friends and neighbors.

"This weekend the lines are so long, it's unreal," she said. "It's like all of a sudden, panic has set in."

Although state officials said Flint's water supply met federal standards, the water can still pick up lead when it flows through the thousands of lead or galvanized steel lines that remain in the city.

Flint is working with contractors to replace all of the affected lines by 2020. Just over 6,200 have been replaced so far, said Steve Branch, the acting city administrator. An estimated 12,000 could remain.

The governor's statement said Flint residents could still obtain free water filters.

Michigan taxpayers have "provided more than $350 million to Flint, in addition to the $100 million from the federal government," the statement said. "The funding is helping with water quality improvements, pipe replacement, health care, nutritional food distribution, educational resources, job training and creation, and more."

Flint has struggled with its water crisis since 2014, when state-appointed officials began using the Flint River, rather than the more expensive Detroit water system, as a source for tap water that was not properly treated before it reached residents' homes.

One study published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2016 found that the percentage of Flint children with elevated levels of lead in their blood doubled after the switch, which has also been linked to 12 fatal cases of Legionnaires' disease.

The city switched back to the Detroit water system in 2015, and the crisis resulted in felony charges against emergency managers who had been appointed by Mr. Snyder to help run the city.

Flint was put under emergency management in 2011 because it was struggling financially, but Michigan's treasurer, Nick Khouri, said this past week that he would sign a resolution to release the city from state oversight.

City officials remain concerned about access to safe water now that the distribution of free bottles has ended.

"There are still questions that remain," Dr. Pamela Pugh, Flint's chief public health adviser, said in a statement. "We have not received clear steps as to how the remaining lead in Flint schools will be remediated or how ongoing monitoring will continue for our most vulnerable populations."

Ms. Wilson said that after years of watching people suffer in her hometown, she was disappointed with officials at both the state and local levels.

"I just have no trust in anything they say, because they make these claims and then shortly thereafter, it turns out that they weren't telling the truth," she said.

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Michigan Will No Longer Provide Free Bottled Water to Flint

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"We did not cause the man-made water disaster, therefore adequate resources should continue being provided until the problem is fixed and all the lead and galvanized pipes have been replaced," she said in a statement. Lines of cars formed outside distribution points on Friday as residents rushed to load up on the last of the free bottles.

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How lead intake can impact a child.  (Image #5)

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How lead intake can impact a child.  (Image #5)

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This graphic shows all the different ways lead can shut down a child's body.

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Flint water versus Detroit water (Image #4)

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Flint water versus Detroit water (Image #4)

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This image shows the stark contrast between Flint and Detroit drinking water.

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As we all know water shouldn't be able to catch on fire. There is clearly something wrong with it if it does and should not be ingested

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Burning Water and Fracking. Pure Michigan

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Flint's water crisis leads to more plastic waste. (Image #3)

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Flint's water crisis leads to more plastic waste. (Image #3)

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Flint families go through about 100 gallons of water a day.  to put this into perspective, an average water bottle is 16.9 ounces

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Opposing Viewpoints Are Capitalizing on the Flint Water Crisis for Political Gain (Database Article #1)

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Opposing Viewpoints Are Capitalizing on the Flint Water Crisis for Political Gain (Database Article #1)

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This article discusses how politicians didn't see the water problem as a health concern.  When they did find out that the water was not safe to drink, there was no immediate action or concern

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It appears a federal government shutdown will be avoided, as leaders in the House of Representatives struck a deal to give $170 million to help fix the lead-tainted water system in Flint, Michigan.

What a politicized mess.

Washington, D.C., had a drinking water crisis in 2004 that was 20 to 30 times larger than Flint's with more lead poisoning and exposure. There was, however, no federal aid or national publicity.

"Forty-two-thousand children had lead poisoning back in the early 2000's and we are still dealing with high levels of lead," Washington's local CBS News affiliate reported in April.

"Kids in D.C. that got hurt and have special needs, their families that are paying these extraordinary educational bills, they got nothing because the federal government covered this problem up completely," Virginia Tech environmental engineer Marc Edwards told WTOP, a local radio station, the same month.

The city experienced the high levels of lead after its water supplier, the Washington Aqueduct, changed its chemical treatment from chorine to chloramine. The chloramine caused the city's pipes to corrode, allowing lead to seep from the city's older pipes into the water supply.

Then, as Mr. Edwards hinted, there was a cover-up.

Officials from the water supplier didn't issue warnings to the public once they realized lead levels were unsafe, despite federal law requiring it to do so. After a Washington Post investigation, records show the water utility knew for three years some houses had high levels of contamination-but kept that information secret-and withheld six high test results from federal regulators.

Moreover, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came to the city and wrote a falsified report that claimed "not a single man, woman or child in D.C. had any evidence any of them had their blood lead elevated above CDC's level of concern," Mr. Edwards told WTOP. "In other words, as one paper said, this was much ado about nothing."

Yet-when this was discovered-there was no public outrage. No federal dollars to replace Washington's water pipes, or help the community deal with the public health exposure. I bet, for many readers, this is the first time you're reading about it.

For exposing a crisis in Washington, D.C., isn't politically expedient for federal politicians-it's three electoral votes pale in comparison to Michigan's 16. Not to mention, it couldn't be blamed on a Republican. The city has been ruled by a democratic mayor since it started electing them in 1975, and there's no one higher on the political totem pole, given its lack of statehood.

And let's get this straight: It's just because of that-there were no Republicans to scapegoat and Washington's lack of electoral votes-that Democrats didn't make what happened there a national crisis. Because, Washington, just like Flint, has a large black population, many who live in poverty and were directly impacted by its water crisis.

If Democrats truly cared about the plight of blacks, they would've pushed forward a bill in 2004 that would've given aid to the city where they preside. The crisis, was in fact, larger and impacted more than in Flint.

So when Democrats say things like Republican leaders are refusing to approve emergency aid in Flint because the majority of the city's residents are black-like Rep. Dan Kildee said in a speech on the House floor yesterday-my blood boils.

Do it, or you're racist, is what he's saying. And in a year of presidential politics, isn't that so convenient.

What happened in Flint, Michigan, is a crisis-one that the state, and humanitarian aid, can help fix. Officials in Washington, D.C., actually found replacing the city's pipes was not the best solution (it was their first) but rather adding the chemical orthophosphate, which changes the inside of the pipe from lead to an oxide of lead, but is resistant to leaching.

But probably none of this is being considered as part of the federal bill. If we just slap $170 million on the problem, we've solved it, Democratic lawmakers think. And not only that, but we've won politically-we're the party that cares!

In the end, what choice did House Speaker Paul Ryan have but to cave?

Stubbornly, I wish he held firm.

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The Democrats Are Capitalizing on the Flint Water Crisis for Political Gain

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It appears a federal government shutdown will be avoided, as leaders in the House of Representatives struck a deal to give $170 million to help fix the lead-tainted water system in Flint, Michigan. What a politicized mess. Washington, D.C., had a drinking water crisis in 2004 that was 20 to 30 times larger than Flint's with more lead poisoning and exposure.

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The river that Flint is using for their water. (Image #2)

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The river that Flint is using for their water. (Image #2)

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The Flint River is clearly dirty and should not be used as tap water. It is clearly unsanitary and unsafe.

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How the water crisis in Flint Michigan started.  (Video #1)

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How the water crisis in Flint Michigan started.  (Video #1)

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This video discusses the events that led to the crisis in Flint. By trying to cut back the expenses of water, Flint got themselves into a bigger issue costing much more,

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Here's how Flint's water crisis happened

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This image shows how dirty the water in Flint Michigan is at different times of the day. It is clearly not safe to drink, or even wash dishes with.