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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...
14 mar 2024 · Lead has also contaminated the drinking water in even bigger cities, including Chicago, Ill., and New York City. Yet Flint has become a poster child for the risks that lead can pose to health, including kids’ growing minds and bodies.
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.
25 sty 2022 · As many as a quarter of children in Flint, Michigan – approximately seven times the national average – may have experienced elevated blood lead levels after the city’s water crisis, and more children should have been screened, new Cornell research finds.
25 kwi 2024 · Not long after Gilleylen’s tap water turned brown, the city announced a boil-water notice because Flint’s water was found to contain fecal coliform, a sign of disease-causing pathogens. Boil-water notices for additional issues came soon after.
The Flint Water Crisis (FWC) is divisible into four phases of child water-lead exposure risk: Phase A) before the switch in water source to the Flint River (our baseline); Phase B) after the switch in water source, but before boil water advisories; Phase C) after boil water advisories, but before the switch back to the baseline water source of ...
13 mar 2024 · Abstract. In 2014, the municipal water source in Flint, Michigan was switched, causing lead from aging pipes to leach into the city’s drinking water. While lead exposure in Flint children increased modestly on average, some children were exposed to high lead levels.
