In case you missed it, the town of Flint, Michigan is under a state of emergency because their drinking water is too toxic to drink.
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Legionnaires’ disease is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that infect the lungs.
Snyder declared a state of emergency because of Flint’s lead in water crisis last week, apologizing for the state’s role in rising lead levels in Flint water and in the blood of young children since the city changed its water source to the Flint River in April 2014.
And Earley, the emergency manager who planned Flint’s switch to river water?
A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in western IL last summer that killed 12 and sickened dozens was likely spread by an aging water system at a 129-year-old facility that lacked several safeguards, The Associated Press reported last month based on a federal report. The latest development: Their request for people to send in all the supplies that they didn’t bring for themselves, like food, hair-care products – and French vanilla creamer for their coffee.
Chief James Tolbert says in a statement that police have received reports of people selling water filters. Then, in January 2015, Flint violated the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act because its water contained high levels of total trihalomethanes or THM, byproducts of the water treatment process that, over time, can increase the risk of cancer and cause health problems of the liver, kidneys and central nervous system. “However, we also need federal assistance as we continue to cope with this man-made water disaster”.
(CNN)Flint, Michigan, is suffering a major water crisis. “The Michigan National Guard is trained and ready to assist the citizens of Flint”.
The governor has also reached out to Washington for help through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The city has about 30,000 households housing 99,000 residents. A water quality expert told CNN that it would have taken nothing more than $100 per day to avoid this whole crisis. Flint residents, many of whom live at or below the poverty line, are still being billed for the water that’s poisoning their kids.
The exhibit, titled “Water’s Extreme Journey”, will open January 23 at the Sloan Museum and will close May 8.
Shortly after the switch, residents water began coming in through the taps not clear, but brown.
Volunteers and police carrying bottled water, filters and lead test kits knocked on doors in Flint on Tuesday, seeking to help residents in the MI city that’s confronting a water crisis.
On Wednesday, Guard members began staffing five…
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“We plan to go every day this week, and we’ll continue until everyone has safe drinking water”, state police Lt. Dave Kaiser said in his own press conference.
