Flint water crisis - Wikipedia The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2019 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria [2]
Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know - NRDC 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
Flint water crisis | Summary, Facts, Governor, Criminal Charges . . . 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
Flint Water Crisis: What Happened and Why? - PMC The source of the outbreak has not been definitively determined or directly connected to the Flint water system, but as noted by Anderson (2016), the illnesses began after Flint changed its water supply
Ten Years Later, Flint Still Doesnt Have Clean Water Reports of foul-smelling, discolored, and off-tasting water began to arise, especially from Flint's working-class Black and brown communities Ten Years Later, Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean
Flint Water Crisis: A Decade of Injustice and the Fight for . . . In April 2014, in a cost-saving effort, Flint officials switched the city’s water supply from Lake Huron to the heavily polluted Flint River The Flint Water Supply Plant, inactive for decades, lacked updated treatment capabilities and proper staff training
Taking Action on Flint Water - State of Michigan Since July 2016, the city of Flint's water system has met state and federal standards for lead in drinking water for 15 consecutive monitoring periods The latest six-month round of monitoring shows Flint's 90th percentile at 3 parts per billion (ppb), below the requirement of 15 ppb
Nine years later, EPA lifts emergency order on Flint’s drinking water The United States Environmental Protection Agency on Monday lifted its emergency order on drinking water in the City of Flint, with agency Director Lee Zeldin announcing the city had met all the requirements outlined in the order