Volunteers load bottled water onto a truck in Flint, Michigan, in February 2016. Flint officials failed to add anticorrosion controls to the treatment of the Flint River water, according to the New York Times, and investigations revealed that lead and other chemicals leached into residents’ drinking water from old pipes in the city’s infrastructure. That’s how many children and teenagers were living in Flint during the water crisis, according to the Post. Tangent“Flint still doesn’t have clean water” became a common refrain on social media after the city’s crisis gained the national spotlight. Further readingMichigan to Pay $600 Million to Victims of Flint Water Crisis (New York Times)$600 million settlement to be announced for Flint, Mich., water crisis (Washington Post)$600M Flint water crisis settlement is more than the state has paid out for the last decades’ worth of lawsuits combined (MLive)

Source: Forbes August 20, 2020 12:41 UTC