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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...
22 cze 2018 · Although Flint reported compliance with the LCR in 2014 and 2015, water lead results from our survey of 268 homes in the first round of citizen led sampling (August 2015) indicated that there was a system-wide lead in water contamination problem.
27 kwi 2024 · Experts say there is no safe concentration of lead and exposure to even low amounts of lead-contaminated drinking water can increase blood lead levels. According to the EPA, exposure to lead in adults can increase blood pressure, harm kidney function, and cause heart disease and cancer.
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...
The Flint water crisis may be the most serious lead contamination in drinking water to date, but other water supplies across the United States have been affected, too. In 2001, Washington, D.C. changed how it treated drinking water, and lead levels dramatically rose.
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...
