four years on, the people of flint are still fighting for that most basic necessity – clean drinking water
by：Purewell
2020-01-07
Flint native Jada Coleman decided to come forward while watching Netflix\'s documentary about her own city, feeling that the documentary was only part of the story.
It talked about crime and poverty, the shameful water crisis, and the way the city police forces responded.
But it rarely talks about its people, how they suffer, not to mention the way residents help each other when faced with official deceit and failure.
What must she do?
From 24-startyear-
Old graphic design students designing and selling T-
The aim is to raise awareness and funding.
Less than three months later, her militant group 810H2O-810 is the phone code for East Michigan and is helping organize the young people in the city, her T-
People across the country snapped up shirts.
Four years after an accidental poisoning of Michigan\'s water supply, the incident was masked, and the residents\' physical and mental health was shaken to the heart, Jada and her sister Jallyah, dozens of ordinary people are still trying to provide the most basic demand-safe drinking water.
Jada said: \"I had this idea after Flint Town showed up on Netflix and I started looking at it and I thought it was just focused on all the negative emotions, \"Sitting outside the uncle\'s house in Flint North.
\"I want to find a way to show the positive things we are trying to do.
That\'s when we started the 810H2O movement.
After the state\'s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, announced last month that he had concluded that tap water was safe and that he was stopping the supply of free bottled water, church groups and volunteers have been scrambling to fill the gap.
The city government, which is also trying to start its own distribution, is considering suing the governor.
The activists included veterans who were looking for other former soldiers, mothers who were poisoned by lead to their families, and amateur comedians who were standing on charity nights.
Ang Lee Walters helped reveal the dangers of the city\'s water and cover --
Recently won the Goldman Sachs Environment Award, a recognition of grassroots activism.
\"The country is not transparent, and the City of Flint is not transparent,\" Walters MS . \" He refers to various statements about whether water is suitable for consumption. The mother-of-
4 people who taught themselves about water safety and asked for help from the Environmental Protection Bureau (EPA)
Miguel del Toral and Marc Edwards, an engineer at MIT, revealed what had happened.
In 2015, she worked almost without a pause for three consecutive weeks, obtaining more than 800 water samples from the zip code in each city, it also shows that many of these contain levels of toxins that are more than officially classified as hazardous waste.
In response to Mr. Snyder\'s decision to stop the water supply, she added: \"I asked the state why it took the bottled water.
I asked this question.
According to researchers at Virginia Tech, in 2014, when officials moved the city\'s water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, harm Flint\'s water was poisoned and the Flint River was corrosive.
At that time, the management of the city was under state control and this step was taken to save money.
Almost immediately after that, people reported that their water had a bad smell and changed color.
The residents developed rash and hair loss.
It is estimated that as many as 12,000 children are exposed to dangerous levels of lead.
The city was also affected by the outbreak of veterans disease, which affected 87 people and killed 12.
The city received a state and federal aid program of $450.
Fifteen former and current state and city officials have been charged with criminal offences ranging from intentional dereliction of duty to manslaughter.
Jassmine McBride is very close to 13 people who have become veterans.
On August 2014, the young woman with diabetes was examined in the hospital.
When the doctor found out that she had low oxygen
Finally, she was rushed to the emergency room where she had to be revived.
Her family was told that she had a veteran\'s illness, which experts believe is related to the presence of metals in the water and the lack of chlorine, which is usually added to the water as a disinfectant.
She had to be hospitalized before Christmas. Todaythe 28-year-
Old, once dancing and singing with her church, on the rotten or abandoned streets of the north end, she spent a few days in the small house at home.
She had crutches, but struggled a few yards to walk, and because both of her lungs were permanently damaged, she used an oxygen tank.
She needs regular dialysis.
\"I can\'t work, I can\'t do anything normal that I used to do,\" she said . \".
The family said the area has become more dangerous and less hospitable in the past decade.
\"There is nothing that children and people can do, so people will go another way or another way,\" she said . \" This is a reference to the region\'s reputation for high crime.
In the evening, they heard the gun.
Although Flint\'s lead problem has been widely reported, corrosive water can also release other metals, such as iron, both of which promote the growth of bacteria, including Legion bacteria, it can lead to severe and dangerous pneumonia, but also inhibit the activity of chlorine, which is added to the water supply as a disinfectant.
Former Michigan director of Health and Human Services Nick Lyon is on trial for manslaughter related to the death of veterans.
At present, the city of Flushing is conducting a preliminary hearing on these allegations.
He denied any criminal conduct through counsel and presented his own expert witness, who testified that at least two victims were likely to die for other reasons.
\"When this started, they set a story and I said, \'This is not just about leadership, \'\" said Art Woodsen, 50. year-
To help send water to other former military veterans.
\"It\'s about veterans, copper and carcinogens in the water.
\"A lot of people focus on the children, but they poison everyone,\" he added . \"
Is water safe?
When Snyder announced on the 6 th that Michigan will stop supplying water to Flint, he claimed that \"scientific data now proves that the water supply system is stable and the demand for bottled water has ended \".
\"We will now be more focused on continuing to provide the health, education and economic development assistance needed to help Flint move forward,\" he said . \" She said that when she complained and asked him to continue to do so at least before completing work on all the pipes in the city was replaced, she was told to \"overcome it\" and the governor\'s spokesman denied the claim.
MS Weaver said she was only told hours before the governor\'s decision was announced that some activists disagreed.
She said she was considering suing the governor\'s office.
The mayor said she believes that the water provided to the faucet is safe if people use filters.
She said, however, that if people had questions, she encouraged them to do the tests through the municipal government or private testers.
A spokeswoman for Snyder\'s office said that the supply of free bottled water was seven months longer than the law, because it was twice in a row.
Months of monitoring showed that the city\'s water supply system met federal standards.
\"The state continues to provide free water filtration and filter replacement cartridges for all residents, even those who have replaced the service lines,\" the spokesman said . \".
However, activists criticized Snyder\'s move to end free water supply, and the state decided to allow Nestlé to double its water volume from a spring water pump in the north of the state to 400 gallons per minute, this exacerbated the situation.
The company pays the country $200 a year for water pumps and offers free distribution of 100,000 bottles to Flint every week.
The National Resource Protection Committee of the environmental organization says Flint\'s people \"deserve better \".
NRDC Michigan senior advocate Cyndi Roper said that the results of the test conducted by Susan Masten of Michigan State University are part of the residents\' settlement of the lawsuit and can only reveal so much, because they are only for testing the content of lead and copper, not other contaminants.
While lead levels appear to have declined, \"These results do not indicate that Flint\'s water is usually\" safe \"or\" unsafe \", she said \".
She added: \"It is safe that there is not much lead in drinking water.
Still, residents of Flint feel it is entirely understandable that bottled water is needed.
The governor may say that tap water is safe, and the mayor may say that it is safe if people use the filters provided, but few believe it.
In fact, in the three days of the city, only two of the dozens interviewed by independents said they drank tap water.
One of them, MS Weaver, is the mayor.
It seems that for the vast majority of people, part of everyday life now includes getting bottled water, either buying bottled water or collecting bottled water from groups that still offer bottled water.
Even if they left the city and even the state, many people were reluctant to drink from the tap, something they strongly passed on to their children.
\"I definitely don\'t drink water.
I don\'t trust people in the office, \"said Tom Norman, the landscape designer who was packing up.
A truck with gasoline on the north end.
\"If I go to Atlanta, I will still be hesitant to drink water.
I\'m not saying there\'s something wrong with water.
I just don\'t think I can believe anything.
In early 1960, church group Floyd Burns moved from Alabama to Flint, when
It\'s easy to find paid jobs in the automotive industry.
He has worked for GM for 43 years, and GM was founded in Flint in 1908, hiring up to 80,000 people during the city\'s peak wealth.
From 1931 to 2007, GM was the world\'s largest car manufacturer and was considered to turn Flynn into a prosperous and prosperous city of 200,000 people, a manifestation of the American dream of the middle class.
These days have long passed, and the vast majority of manufacturing jobs have followed.
The recent census shows that in a city with a black population of 57, a white population of 37, a Latino population of 4, and a mixed race of 4, at least 41 residents live below the federal poverty line.
For the past four years, Mr. Burns, who is now retired, has been one of the first volunteers to distribute water at Trinity Baptist Church.
After Mr. Snyder stopped the supply of free bottles, the church was just one of the few places where free bottles were provided, and due to donations from all over the country, the church was able to provide free bottles.
Even if the water is safe-he says he has been drinking bottled water for 15 years-the authorities are facing enormous challenges in trying to win credibility in the minds of citizens, he said.
\"People don\'t trust because they let them drink bad water for such a long time,\" he said, putting a few boxes of water in the back of people\'s vehicles.
\"It takes a lot of time.
\"One of the men in stock was Robert pith, who came here with a run-down car --
With two friends.
Everyone complained that the tap water was too poisonous to even clean with it.
\"It causes bumps on the skin,\" said a middleman.
Elderly women in passenger seats.
\"It makes your skin feel like a crocodile.
\"No one will laugh at the change that Raja darriso wants to bring through the elected State Council.
13-year-old political organizer and motheryear-
The old daughter is running her own grassroots campaign and trying to raise awareness through social media and organizing protests.
\"People told me that I provided a voice for the silent, but I don\'t agree,\" she said . \".
\"I\'m showing people how to have a say.
Earlier this year, darriso MS led a protest in Lansing State Council, video footage of which went viral online.
\"People always go to the Capitol, but we decided to hold a protest in the chamber,\" she said, sitting at the kitchen table.
She said it would take a long time to win back the trust of the people.
\"In the end, they will believe in the tap, but not very soon.
Now it\'s \"cook it, filter it, cook it again \".
\"Because she realizes that the trust deficit has crossed generations, she encourages her teenage daughter to headdress herself as an activist and educate her friends about what is happening in their city.
\"I am launching a project on how to select elected officials,\" the teenager said . \" He recalled how the water from the city\'s taps turned brown at the height of the crisis.
\"People will not trust the government.
Four years after the water crisis began, many in Flint felt that the world had forgotten the water crisis and the media \"continued\" to report other stories.
Many appreciate their situation being pushed back into the spotlight by American comedian Michelle Wolfe, who performed earlier this year at the annual White House journalists Association dinner in Washington.
Every year, the group hires a comedian to tease the White House, the president and the media themselves.
Although Donald Trump has refused twice, the president is usually present.
This year, MS Wolff was criticized by some for his comments by Sarah Huckabee Sandles, press secretary for the White House.
Wolf MS said Sanders MS often was accused the media don\'t completely honest.
\"I really like Sarah.
I think she\'s resourceful.
She burns the facts and then creates the perfect eye with soot.
Maybe she was born like this, maybe it was a lie.
It could be a lie, \"she said.
In this city, however, if people hear about the daily life of Wolf MS, it is because of her last sentence, which is definitely not a joke: \"Flint still does not have clean water.
MS Walters, a Goldman Sachs Environmental Award winner, said residents appreciated what she had done.
\"The people in Flint are proud of her trying to solve the problem.
It talked about crime and poverty, the shameful water crisis, and the way the city police forces responded.
But it rarely talks about its people, how they suffer, not to mention the way residents help each other when faced with official deceit and failure.
What must she do?
From 24-startyear-
Old graphic design students designing and selling T-
The aim is to raise awareness and funding.
Less than three months later, her militant group 810H2O-810 is the phone code for East Michigan and is helping organize the young people in the city, her T-
People across the country snapped up shirts.
Four years after an accidental poisoning of Michigan\'s water supply, the incident was masked, and the residents\' physical and mental health was shaken to the heart, Jada and her sister Jallyah, dozens of ordinary people are still trying to provide the most basic demand-safe drinking water.
Jada said: \"I had this idea after Flint Town showed up on Netflix and I started looking at it and I thought it was just focused on all the negative emotions, \"Sitting outside the uncle\'s house in Flint North.
\"I want to find a way to show the positive things we are trying to do.
That\'s when we started the 810H2O movement.
After the state\'s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, announced last month that he had concluded that tap water was safe and that he was stopping the supply of free bottled water, church groups and volunteers have been scrambling to fill the gap.
The city government, which is also trying to start its own distribution, is considering suing the governor.
The activists included veterans who were looking for other former soldiers, mothers who were poisoned by lead to their families, and amateur comedians who were standing on charity nights.
Ang Lee Walters helped reveal the dangers of the city\'s water and cover --
Recently won the Goldman Sachs Environment Award, a recognition of grassroots activism.
\"The country is not transparent, and the City of Flint is not transparent,\" Walters MS . \" He refers to various statements about whether water is suitable for consumption. The mother-of-
4 people who taught themselves about water safety and asked for help from the Environmental Protection Bureau (EPA)
Miguel del Toral and Marc Edwards, an engineer at MIT, revealed what had happened.
In 2015, she worked almost without a pause for three consecutive weeks, obtaining more than 800 water samples from the zip code in each city, it also shows that many of these contain levels of toxins that are more than officially classified as hazardous waste.
In response to Mr. Snyder\'s decision to stop the water supply, she added: \"I asked the state why it took the bottled water.
I asked this question.
According to researchers at Virginia Tech, in 2014, when officials moved the city\'s water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, harm Flint\'s water was poisoned and the Flint River was corrosive.
At that time, the management of the city was under state control and this step was taken to save money.
Almost immediately after that, people reported that their water had a bad smell and changed color.
The residents developed rash and hair loss.
It is estimated that as many as 12,000 children are exposed to dangerous levels of lead.
The city was also affected by the outbreak of veterans disease, which affected 87 people and killed 12.
The city received a state and federal aid program of $450.
Fifteen former and current state and city officials have been charged with criminal offences ranging from intentional dereliction of duty to manslaughter.
Jassmine McBride is very close to 13 people who have become veterans.
On August 2014, the young woman with diabetes was examined in the hospital.
When the doctor found out that she had low oxygen
Finally, she was rushed to the emergency room where she had to be revived.
Her family was told that she had a veteran\'s illness, which experts believe is related to the presence of metals in the water and the lack of chlorine, which is usually added to the water as a disinfectant.
She had to be hospitalized before Christmas. Todaythe 28-year-
Old, once dancing and singing with her church, on the rotten or abandoned streets of the north end, she spent a few days in the small house at home.
She had crutches, but struggled a few yards to walk, and because both of her lungs were permanently damaged, she used an oxygen tank.
She needs regular dialysis.
\"I can\'t work, I can\'t do anything normal that I used to do,\" she said . \".
The family said the area has become more dangerous and less hospitable in the past decade.
\"There is nothing that children and people can do, so people will go another way or another way,\" she said . \" This is a reference to the region\'s reputation for high crime.
In the evening, they heard the gun.
Although Flint\'s lead problem has been widely reported, corrosive water can also release other metals, such as iron, both of which promote the growth of bacteria, including Legion bacteria, it can lead to severe and dangerous pneumonia, but also inhibit the activity of chlorine, which is added to the water supply as a disinfectant.
Former Michigan director of Health and Human Services Nick Lyon is on trial for manslaughter related to the death of veterans.
At present, the city of Flushing is conducting a preliminary hearing on these allegations.
He denied any criminal conduct through counsel and presented his own expert witness, who testified that at least two victims were likely to die for other reasons.
\"When this started, they set a story and I said, \'This is not just about leadership, \'\" said Art Woodsen, 50. year-
To help send water to other former military veterans.
\"It\'s about veterans, copper and carcinogens in the water.
\"A lot of people focus on the children, but they poison everyone,\" he added . \"
Is water safe?
When Snyder announced on the 6 th that Michigan will stop supplying water to Flint, he claimed that \"scientific data now proves that the water supply system is stable and the demand for bottled water has ended \".
\"We will now be more focused on continuing to provide the health, education and economic development assistance needed to help Flint move forward,\" he said . \" She said that when she complained and asked him to continue to do so at least before completing work on all the pipes in the city was replaced, she was told to \"overcome it\" and the governor\'s spokesman denied the claim.
MS Weaver said she was only told hours before the governor\'s decision was announced that some activists disagreed.
She said she was considering suing the governor\'s office.
The mayor said she believes that the water provided to the faucet is safe if people use filters.
She said, however, that if people had questions, she encouraged them to do the tests through the municipal government or private testers.
A spokeswoman for Snyder\'s office said that the supply of free bottled water was seven months longer than the law, because it was twice in a row.
Months of monitoring showed that the city\'s water supply system met federal standards.
\"The state continues to provide free water filtration and filter replacement cartridges for all residents, even those who have replaced the service lines,\" the spokesman said . \".
However, activists criticized Snyder\'s move to end free water supply, and the state decided to allow Nestlé to double its water volume from a spring water pump in the north of the state to 400 gallons per minute, this exacerbated the situation.
The company pays the country $200 a year for water pumps and offers free distribution of 100,000 bottles to Flint every week.
The National Resource Protection Committee of the environmental organization says Flint\'s people \"deserve better \".
NRDC Michigan senior advocate Cyndi Roper said that the results of the test conducted by Susan Masten of Michigan State University are part of the residents\' settlement of the lawsuit and can only reveal so much, because they are only for testing the content of lead and copper, not other contaminants.
While lead levels appear to have declined, \"These results do not indicate that Flint\'s water is usually\" safe \"or\" unsafe \", she said \".
She added: \"It is safe that there is not much lead in drinking water.
Still, residents of Flint feel it is entirely understandable that bottled water is needed.
The governor may say that tap water is safe, and the mayor may say that it is safe if people use the filters provided, but few believe it.
In fact, in the three days of the city, only two of the dozens interviewed by independents said they drank tap water.
One of them, MS Weaver, is the mayor.
It seems that for the vast majority of people, part of everyday life now includes getting bottled water, either buying bottled water or collecting bottled water from groups that still offer bottled water.
Even if they left the city and even the state, many people were reluctant to drink from the tap, something they strongly passed on to their children.
\"I definitely don\'t drink water.
I don\'t trust people in the office, \"said Tom Norman, the landscape designer who was packing up.
A truck with gasoline on the north end.
\"If I go to Atlanta, I will still be hesitant to drink water.
I\'m not saying there\'s something wrong with water.
I just don\'t think I can believe anything.
In early 1960, church group Floyd Burns moved from Alabama to Flint, when
It\'s easy to find paid jobs in the automotive industry.
He has worked for GM for 43 years, and GM was founded in Flint in 1908, hiring up to 80,000 people during the city\'s peak wealth.
From 1931 to 2007, GM was the world\'s largest car manufacturer and was considered to turn Flynn into a prosperous and prosperous city of 200,000 people, a manifestation of the American dream of the middle class.
These days have long passed, and the vast majority of manufacturing jobs have followed.
The recent census shows that in a city with a black population of 57, a white population of 37, a Latino population of 4, and a mixed race of 4, at least 41 residents live below the federal poverty line.
For the past four years, Mr. Burns, who is now retired, has been one of the first volunteers to distribute water at Trinity Baptist Church.
After Mr. Snyder stopped the supply of free bottles, the church was just one of the few places where free bottles were provided, and due to donations from all over the country, the church was able to provide free bottles.
Even if the water is safe-he says he has been drinking bottled water for 15 years-the authorities are facing enormous challenges in trying to win credibility in the minds of citizens, he said.
\"People don\'t trust because they let them drink bad water for such a long time,\" he said, putting a few boxes of water in the back of people\'s vehicles.
\"It takes a lot of time.
\"One of the men in stock was Robert pith, who came here with a run-down car --
With two friends.
Everyone complained that the tap water was too poisonous to even clean with it.
\"It causes bumps on the skin,\" said a middleman.
Elderly women in passenger seats.
\"It makes your skin feel like a crocodile.
\"No one will laugh at the change that Raja darriso wants to bring through the elected State Council.
13-year-old political organizer and motheryear-
The old daughter is running her own grassroots campaign and trying to raise awareness through social media and organizing protests.
\"People told me that I provided a voice for the silent, but I don\'t agree,\" she said . \".
\"I\'m showing people how to have a say.
Earlier this year, darriso MS led a protest in Lansing State Council, video footage of which went viral online.
\"People always go to the Capitol, but we decided to hold a protest in the chamber,\" she said, sitting at the kitchen table.
She said it would take a long time to win back the trust of the people.
\"In the end, they will believe in the tap, but not very soon.
Now it\'s \"cook it, filter it, cook it again \".
\"Because she realizes that the trust deficit has crossed generations, she encourages her teenage daughter to headdress herself as an activist and educate her friends about what is happening in their city.
\"I am launching a project on how to select elected officials,\" the teenager said . \" He recalled how the water from the city\'s taps turned brown at the height of the crisis.
\"People will not trust the government.
Four years after the water crisis began, many in Flint felt that the world had forgotten the water crisis and the media \"continued\" to report other stories.
Many appreciate their situation being pushed back into the spotlight by American comedian Michelle Wolfe, who performed earlier this year at the annual White House journalists Association dinner in Washington.
Every year, the group hires a comedian to tease the White House, the president and the media themselves.
Although Donald Trump has refused twice, the president is usually present.
This year, MS Wolff was criticized by some for his comments by Sarah Huckabee Sandles, press secretary for the White House.
Wolf MS said Sanders MS often was accused the media don\'t completely honest.
\"I really like Sarah.
I think she\'s resourceful.
She burns the facts and then creates the perfect eye with soot.
Maybe she was born like this, maybe it was a lie.
It could be a lie, \"she said.
In this city, however, if people hear about the daily life of Wolf MS, it is because of her last sentence, which is definitely not a joke: \"Flint still does not have clean water.
MS Walters, a Goldman Sachs Environmental Award winner, said residents appreciated what she had done.
\"The people in Flint are proud of her trying to solve the problem.
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