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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.
25 kwi 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...
16 kwi 2024 · Learn how Flint, Michigan, switched its water supply from Detroit to the Flint River in 2014, causing lead contamination and other water quality issues. Find out how residents fought back, what the government did, and what the long-term impacts are.
6 maj 2024 · The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, unfolded in 2014, when a state-appointed emergency manager decided to switch the city’s drinking-water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
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 lis 2021 · Reuters. A US judge has approved a $626m (£467m) settlement for victims of the 2014-15 lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Most of the money will go to the city's children exposed to drinking...
20 maj 2024 · The majority-Black city of Jackson, Miss. has had water quality concerns for years that came to a head in 2022, when the Pearl River flooded, shutting down the water treatment facility and...
