Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know - NRDC
Oct 8, 2024 · A story of environmental injustice and bad decision-making that has yet to be fully resolved, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, began on April 25, 2014, when the city switched its...
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...
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 | Summary, Facts, Governor, & Criminal Charges ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Flint water crisis, human-made public health crisis (April 2014–June 2016) involving the municipal water supply system of Flint, Michigan. Tens of thousands of Flint residents were exposed to dangerous levels of lead, and outbreaks of Legionnaire disease killed at least 12 people and sickened dozens more.
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: A Step-By-Step Look At What Happened - NPR
Apr 20, 2016 · Lead seepage into the drinking water in Flint, Mich., has caused a massive public health crisis and prompted President Obama to declare a federal state of emergency there. The problem began...
10 years on, Flint still faces consequences from the water crisis
May 6, 2024 · Amid financial turmoil, the city switched its source of drinking water and thereby unleashed a crisis that exposed tens of thousands of residents to lead—a potent neurotoxin—and potentially carcinogenic compounds called trihalomethanes. The switch also led to outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease.
Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Linger
May 4, 2024 · Flint, Michigan, is less than 70 miles from the Great Lakes, the most abundant fresh water on the face of the planet. It’s laced with creeks and a broad river that bears its name. Yet in 2014,...
Key moments in Flint, Michigan’s lead-tainted water crisis
Jun 28, 2022 · FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan Supreme Court order that charges related to the Flint water scandal against former Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and seven other people must be dismissed is the latest development in the crisis that started in 2014.
Judge approves $626 million settlement in Flint water crisis - NBC News
Nov 11, 2021 · A federal judge approved a $626 million settlement Wednesday with tens of thousands of people in Flint, Michigan, who sued the state and others after their drinking water was tainted by lead.