From: Mother Jones
It's been the subject of protests and debates, but if anything is improving in Flint, Michigan, it's hard for any of us on the ground to see.
One of the city's lead pipes has been replaced for the benefit of the press, but more than 8,000 additional service lines are likely corroded and still leaching toxic lead. It took a mom, a pediatrician, and a professor in Virginia to discover Flint's children were being poisoned. It took cable television to get the nation to give a damn.
And that's not all. An outbreak
of Legionnaires' disease has killed at least 9 people and infected 87
others over the last two years. The state knew. The city knew. The
county knew. The federal government knew. But the public was never told.
Legionella bacteria may still be in pipes and hot-water heaters,
waiting for warm weather to spawn. People are frightened in this
hardscrabble town of 99,000 about an hour's drive north of Detroit. And
still, the government tells them nothing.
The city's pipe inspector at the water plant won't return calls. MORE
It's been the subject of protests and debates, but if anything is improving in Flint, Michigan, it's hard for any of us on the ground to see.
One of the city's lead pipes has been replaced for the benefit of the press, but more than 8,000 additional service lines are likely corroded and still leaching toxic lead. It took a mom, a pediatrician, and a professor in Virginia to discover Flint's children were being poisoned. It took cable television to get the nation to give a damn.
Sabrina Hernandez bathes her granddaughter, Hazel, with bottled water.
The city's pipe inspector at the water plant won't return calls. MORE
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