It's been 10 years since the start of a devastating water crisis in ...
Apr 25, 2024 — Ten years ago, a water crisis began in Flint, Mich. Lead tainted the drinking water. A decade later, people are still asking if the water is safe to drink. Michigan Public's Steve Carmody...
Scientists Now Know Exactly How Lead Got Into Flint’s Water
Feb 3, 2017 — The root cause of the Flint lead crisis was corrosion, the new study confirms. For 50 years, Flint had purchased its water from Detroit, its neighbor 70 miles to south.
Flint Water Crisis: A Step-By-Step Look At What Happened - NPR
Apr 20, 2016 — Lead seepage into the drinking water in Flint, Mich., has causing a major public health crisis and prompted President Obama to declare a federal state of emergency. This is how it unfolded.
10 years after Flint's lead water crisis began, a lack of urgency ...
Apr 24, 2024 — 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 —...
Flint water crisis - Wikipedia
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]
Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know - NRDC
Oct 8, 2024 — After officials repeatedly dismissed claims that Flint’s water was making people sick, residents took action. Here’s how the lead contamination crisis unfolded—and what we can learn from it.
Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Linger
May 4, 2024 — The result: excess exposure to toxic lead, bacteria and a disinfection byproduct in Flint’s drinking water. An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease sickened 90 people and killed 12. (The toll is...
Ten years later, what lessons have we learned from the Flint water ...
November 13, 2023. No one could have imagined the devastation that was in store when city leaders made the ill-fated decision in 2014 to switch to the Flint River for drinking water in Flint, Michigan. Under financial pressure, they promised the …
State vows to remove toxic pipes in Flint after Scripps News Probe
4 days ago — More than a decade after a cost-cutting decision in Flint created one of the more shocking public health scandals in the country — killing a dozen residents and exposing 100,000 others to poisonous water contaminated with lead – the state of Michigan has committed to finally remove the toxic hazards remaining at hundreds of homes there, a lingering threat exposed earlier this year by ...
The EPA says lead in Flint's water is at acceptable levels. Residents ...
Apr 26, 2024 — EPA efforts to ensure safe, reliable drinking water for Flint residents are ongoing. EGLE has primary authority for Michigan's safe drinking water program and works with Flint to ensure...