Flint’s Water Crisis
February 11, 2016
Recently in Flint, Michigan, residents have had serious concerns with what is being leaked into their water supply. Large amounts of lead have been exposed to the water, urging Michigan Governor, Rick Snyder, to announce a state of emergency to take place while they try to find a conclusive solution to this problem. He is also proposing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to update the infrastructure of the water supplies and pipes. Studies show, that for over a year more than 100,000 people had been getting water from the Flint river instead of from Lake Huron from Detroit’s water system. It was around this time that people started complaining about the odd colors in their tap water. The percentage of children with high levels of lead nearly doubled after the switch, according to a local hospital’s findings. “The sedimentation will recoat the pipes and will lower the lead levels to below safety standards. Unfortunately, it could take months for that to happen,” predicts science teacher Gregory Panas. The future of Flint is undeclared, however we hope people will stay safe and really comply with the state of emergency that has taken place.
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Matt Carrino • Feb 16, 2016 at 10:00 AM
This article was very well written and contained plenty of valuable information on an important topic going on in The United States today. Many factual statements and statistics were presented to give the reader a true understanding of the crisis taking place in Flint, Michigan today. Recently, I had heard of big-name celebrities donating money and bottles of water to the people of Flint, celebrities ranging from rappers such as Big Sean, Meek Mill, Eminem, and Wiz Khalifa, to sport stars such as Earvin “Magic” Johnson and the Detroit Lions football organization. Some even went out of their way to deliver as many as one million bottles of water. After reading this article, I feel as if I have enough knowledge to understand and explain the issue of Flint’s water crisis.