Flint, Michigan residents, 40 percent of whom have incomes under the poverty level, have been paying the highest water bills in the nation for the lead-tainted water that has endangered their children’s health. Those rates were set by the state-appointed emergency managers who switched the system from Detroit water to chemical-laden Flint River water. Thank you, Governor Rick Snyder.
More:
“While Lead Flowed Through the Pipes, Flint Residents Paid America’s Most Expensive Water Bills,” Julia Lurie, Mother Jones
“Flint Is What Happens When a Small-Government, Anti-Spending Philosophy Rules the Day,” Jeff Turrentine , Pacific Standard
“Lessons from Flint and the Price of Water Privatization,” Mary Grant and Jo Miles, Food & Water Watch
“By the numbers: Flint’s water emergency,” Associated Press
Related:
“How the Flint River got so toxic,” Tim Carmody, The Verge
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