A coalition of some of America’s biggest companies is organizing a trucklift for Flint, promising to deliver 6.5 million bottles of water to the city in order to provide clean drinking water for schoolchildren through 2016. Residents of Flint have also reported brittle bones, rashes, hair loss and bone aches. The river had a reputation for nastiness, and after the April 2014 switch, …
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Flint, Michigan, is seeing some high-profile support these days. But a one-time infusion of gallons of fresh water doesn’t do much to address the systemic failures of government that led to the water crisis in the first place. She was initially accused of spreading hysteria, but now she…
Meanwhile, Bristol Herald Courier reported that Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark promised to donate 100 cases of water for Flint City. Overall, about 40 percent of city residents live below the federal poverty line.
While the state investigates what went wrong and searches for solutions, Flint definitely needs more people like these two brother who are willing to donate and help out.
The NAACP is holding a public mass meeting Tuesday to rally for a resolution to the Flint water crisis.
State officials, however, vehemently dispute the claim. He said once a panel appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder finishes its work, Schuette would then have a better idea of whether to investigate. & I don’t wanna see anyone else using the word “PLEDGE” in their donation or press release because we all know that that means…
For sure, “there were major failures here”, Snyder added.
The request has not yet been submitted to to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services or The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services but it will be soon. Flint resident Judy Sears says she is grateful to all of them.
The matter has been discussed in social media, particularly by filmmaker and Flint native Michael Moore.
Children are also more likely to come into contact with lead, partially, public health experts say, because of its sweet taste.
President Barack Obama announced Thursday that $80 million in new funding would be available to MI next week to help the state improve its water infrastructure.
“My message for the city is to keep fighting for each other”, Jackson said.
A former prosecutor and a retired head of the Detroit FBI will play key roles in an investigation into Flint’s lead-tainted water as part of the effort to seek answers while also preventing conflicts of interest, Michigan’s attorney general announced Monday. The investigation could focus on whether environmental laws were broken or whether there was official misconduct in the process that left Flint’s drinking water contaminated.
Officials at Walmart said in a statement that the water crisis has become personal to them.
Snyder, a former accountant and venture capitalist whose Twitter handle is onetoughnerd, took office in 2011 promising to fix the state’s many financial problems by applying the expertise of outsiders who could reinvent the way government works. Locals call it the “General Motors’ sewer”.
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It’s been three weeks since MI declared a state of emergency in Flint, but not a single water pipe that contains lead has been replaced, NBC News has learned. They stress that the decision to break from the Detroit water system was separate from the later choice of tapping the Flint River as a temporary water source.
