Posted on Apr 25, 2019

5 Years After Flint's Crisis Began, Is The Water Safe?

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The city's water problems all began with an optimistic toast.

"Here's to Flint," Mayor Dayne Walling said as he lifted a glass filled with tap water. Walling and other city and state officials were toasting the switch of the city's drinking water source from Detroit's water system to the Flint River.

The switch was intended to save money, but instead cost the mayor his job.

At first, Flint's nearly 100,000 residents complained their tap water was undrinkable: cloudy, foul smelling and tasting of chemicals or worse. The system also suffered E. coli outbreaks. Eventually, the city acknowledged it was in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

But government officials persisted in defending the water as safe to drink.

Outrage grew. Flint residents took to the streets to voice their anger. Chanting "Flint lives matter," the growing protests demanded the city return to Detroit water.

After 18 months, government officials admitted the switch had been bungled. In October 2015, Flint was switched back to Detroit water.

5 Years After Flint's Crisis Began, Is The Water Safe?

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Capt Dwayne Conyers

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Nope! Too bad for the residents who all happen to be of which ethnicity?

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LT Brad McInnis

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Yep, you are right Capt Dwayne Conyers the water is evil enough to only go to the 54% of the population that is black and bypass the 40% that is what.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/flintcitymichigan/PST045218

U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Flint city, Michigan

Frequently requested statistics for: Flint city, Michigan

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Capt Dwayne Conyers

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So LT Brad McInnis thinks the water circumvents the pipes and, like the T-1000 in the terminator movies, goes where it wills...

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LT Brad McInnis

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Capt Dwayne Conyers - I was replying to your facetious and factually wrong statement about all the residents who happen to be of which ethnicity (Your own words). It is very easy to throw around statements that are factually incorrect. We should be better than that. If you feel your comments were okay regardless of the truth, then rock on...

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