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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder should be arrested and prosecuted for causing irreparable harm to the brains of thousands of children in Flint. Switching the municipality to Flint River water is also responsible for destroying the water piping for thousands of residents and businesses that will now have to replace all of the plumbing in their buildings. The decision to pump corrosive water from the Flint River, and the responsibility for the huge harm it has done to the city and people of Flint, Michigan all rests squarely upon Rick Snyder’s shoulders. He must be held accountable!
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Republican “GubMint” at it’s worst.
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Do a blind taste study of bottled water… some non-toxic and some Flint water…
Record his response for all to see.
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Nestle’s can now offer Un-leaded Water. Never let a crisis go unexploited.
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This is ridiculous. Legionnaire’s disease is not spread through drinking water. It’s an airborne pathogen most often spread through ventilation systems where the chillers use contaminated water. Trucking in tons of bottled water won’t do a damn thing to reduce legionnella infection, unless you pour it into the HVAC system.
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Very true. The bottled water is for potable uses. The legionnella is, as you said, probably in an old hvac system that the water corroded seals on and let the bacteria into the system.
For an idea of how corrosive the water is, GM has a massive plant in Flint that had to switch to trucked in water briefly because the Flint water was corroding their auto parts. Fortunately for GM, the plant is partly in Flint Township, which remained on Detroit Water and Sewerage, so they were able to switch water providers for the facility. Sadly for Flint Water, this also means that they lost by far the largest customer in the water system.
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And forced to drink the water that he and his cohorts claimed was fine to drink. The reason he did it was even more sinister by diverting the drinking water from a perfectly good source to the Flint River to save money.
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Conservatives and conservation aren’t the same thing. This is a case of sacrificing your own citizens in an ignorant attempt to save money. Are you telling me that they didn’t test the river water first?
The short term fix is what they are doing but to truly guarantee the people that their best interests are being looked after, they’ve got to oust the 1%ers and get actual representation.
What a dangerous, convuluted way just to get Michael Moore.
O the joys of deregulation and free enterprise. Republican capitalism at its best. Too bad it might killed us in the meantime… LOL!
If this happened in China, homeboy would have been executed by now. Just saying… And of course, this problem is Obama’s fault.
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I’m guessing they tested it for EPA-regulated pollutants only, and only at the source. The problem seems to be acidity, which is not necessarily that bad to drink, but dissolves all the crap in the pipes and now that becomes contaminants once it reaches your house.
It’s like putting that sludge cleaner stuff in your vehicle motor. It breaks it all up and then clogs something else.
Lead is an EPA regulated contaminant. The state regulators cooked the numbers. The Michigan DEQ discarded samples with high levels, cherry picked areas they knew had new pipes without led solder and ran the water for an extended period to flush high lead contamination levels out of the pipes before testing. And they still barely scraped under the EPA number, a number which most health experts on lead contamination feel should be half of what it is. There’s a great article in the Washington Post about the methodology and it’s very eye opening.