How Michigan's Flint River is poisoning the city's residents
by Tafline Laylin from on (#1134V)
To date, over 25,000 children in Flint, Michigan, have been exposed to lead contamination from the city's water supply. How did the water get that way?
Lee-Anne Walters and her family in Flint, Michigan, drank water laced with hazardous levels of lead contamination for nearly eight months, beginning in the spring of 2014.
The water was brown. Her three-year-old son Gavin broke out in a rash every time he had any contact with the water in their home. He would have clear water lines on his body after getting out of the bath. He stopped growing. The whole family broke out in rashes five times, and doctors treated them for scabies.
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