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8 paź 2024 · 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.
The root cause of the Flint lead crisis was corrosion, the new study confirms. For 50 years, Flint had purchased its water from Detroit, its neighbor 70 miles to south.
24 kwi 2024 · Residents began to protest. The city continued to claim the water was safe, even as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency manager told the state that the chemistry of the Flint River allowed...
27 kwi 2024 · The exposure of residents to lead in drinking water caused a national outcry, prompting requirements to update infrastructure and tighten water quality standards. Susan Jaffe reports.
22 cze 2018 · Specifically, the objectives of the study are to (1) evaluate system-wide lead contamination in August 2015 attributed to the switch to Flint River water and absence of corrosion control; (2) quantify the reduction in WLLs in 2016 and 2017 after MDEQ and USEPA interventions; and (3) examine variations in WLLs based on water quality parameters ...
Lead contamination is the most troubling in a series of water problems that have plagued Flint since the summer of 2014. All of them were caused by corrosion in the lead and iron pipes that distribute water to city residents.
24 mar 2016 · The recent episode in Flint, Michigan, has brought the issue of lead in water into the public eye. But the dangers of lead exposure have been recognized for millennia, and we have the knowledge...
