“We are asking a federal court to step in because the people of Flint simply can not rely on the same government agencies that oversaw the destruction of its infrastructure and contamination of its water to address this crisis”, he said.
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(CNN) – The contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan, has so outraged community advocates that they now pose a powerful question: Was the city neglected because it is mostly black and about 40% poor?
The plan also calls for the distribution of bottled water to households to be steered from National Guard members to Flint youth who would be paid minimum wage, as well as free home inspections to determine the extent of damage to the plumbing caused by lead that leached from aging city pipes.
Taking to Instagram in a lengthy post (attached to a picture of a wire transfer for $500,000), The Game says he’s donating this massive amount “because my younger sister & her children live there & 2nd because I care”.
Snyder disclosed the figure during a tele-town hall event Wednesday with almost 8,000 listeners.
Funding to help supply Flint with clean water has flooded in from other sources including crowd funding campaigns and celebrities. That’s how the bacteria can get in your lungs, which can lead to pneumonia.
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver says she has hired a Virginia Tech professor whose extensive testing helped bring the city’s lead-tainted water problems to light.
A lawsuit filed earlier in the day by environmental and civil rights groups asked a federal judge to order the prompt replacement of all lead pipes in Flint’s water system at no cost to customers.
Snyder, speaking at a news conference in Flint, said “a lot of work is being done to even understand where the lead services lines fully are….”
He announced that the state would have an increased administrative presence in Flint and called it the beginning of a long-term effort. They’re for-profit companies. And by providing water to the public schools for the remainder of the year, the four companies have effectively supplanted the local water authorities and made themselves an indispensable public utility, but without any amount of public regulation or local accountability.
While under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager in 2013, Flint rejected an offer to remain with Detroit’s water system that could have saved an estimated $800 million over the life of a 30-year contract, said Bill Johnson, former public affairs director for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has apologized for regulatory failures and other things that led to Flint’s crisis.
“So on behalf my charity @TheRobinHoodProject I am donating $1,000,000 in water bottles”.
Lead is a neurotoxin that can damage the brain and cause other health problems.
The suit says members of Concerned Pastors for Social Action and Flint residents want to use unfiltered tap water they purchase from the water system rather than having to spend additional money and the inconvenience of using bottles water or installing filters. The governor has repeatedly blamed state Department of Environmental Quality employees for failing to require Flint to add anti-corrosion chemicals that would have prevented lead from leaching from old pipes into the water supply.
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This item has been corrected to reflect the proper name of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
