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8 Οκτ 2024 · A story of environmental injustice and bad decision-making that has yet to be fully resolved, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, began on April 25, 2014, when the city switched its drinking...
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. [2]
9 Οκτ 2024 · 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.
25 Απρ 2019 · Five years on, the Flint water crisis is nowhere near over. As the Michigan city’s water emergency lurches on, pipes are still being replaced—and public trust remains low.
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6 Μαΐ 2024 · Amid financial turmoil, the city switched its source of drinking water and thereby unleashed a crisis that exposed tens of thousands of residents to lead—a potent neurotoxin—and potentially carcinogenic compounds called trihalomethanes. The switch also led to outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease.
20 Μαΐ 2024 · The Flint River is naturally high in corrosive chloride, and the absence of certain phosphates that control metal corrosion in the water treatment process allowed rust containing lead to...
3 Φεβ 2017 · 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.
