Amid the ongoing water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, and refusal of authorities to accept responsibility, new reports have shown that the city’s residents were not only slapped with the highest water bills in the country for their lead-poisoned water, but were also likely drinking more toxic substances than just lead.
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On Wednesday, Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder said, engineers have been given one month to find the underground lead water pipes of Flint.
In collaboration with Rowe Professional Services, a Flint-based engineering firm, the state legislature passed an agreement to update analysis of Flint’s water pipes and aid health and safety efforts on behalf of the city’s residents.
Snyder announced on Thursday that Flint will get an additional $2 million from the state to help pay to replace the city’s water infrastructure.
It’s bad enough that the residents of Flint, Michigan, were drinking water tainted with lead, putting a future generation in jeopardy.
Brockovich emphasized the residents must get water and blood testing.
“This funding continues Michigan’s substantial and coordinated response to the Flint water crisis”, Snyder said. He said he wanted the water service line replacements to start quickly but not so fast that the repairs might lead to other troubles. The money will cover the costs for replacing water lines for several hundred homes, according to Weaver’s plan.
A report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says the EPA waited too long to take enforcement action after learning of elevated lead levels in Flint’s water. Flint is under a state of emergency because corrosive water was allowed to leach lead from pipes into the supply.
The Flint water scandal is a flawless expression of the right-wing mentality of self-entitlement.
A circuit court judge ruled in August that this practice was illegal and ordered water bills lowered by 35 percent, compared to when Food and Water watch conducted its research. Residential customers would still have to pay for water used to flush toilets or do laundry.
Residents and government officials in Flint, MI know that their water is undrinkable it, and has been for a while.
Burwell plans to tour a health center and meet with local leaders.
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“Some of the poorest people in the U.S. are paying the highest price for the worst quality water in the United States”, Flint reverend Allen Overton said.
