Water crisis spurs calls to change Michigan open-records law

Flint is among many cities in MI, like Detroit, that have lost their luster since the automotive industry slowed down.

“We’re moving quickly to support some of the urgent needs on the ground”, Gores said in a statement.

Flint, a poor industrial town where 57 per cent of the population is black, encountered problems with its drinking water after a state-appointed emergency manager switched the town’s supply from Lake Huron to Flint River to save money in 2014. The stakes are enormous: According to one study, if the EPA required utilities to take water samples directly from service lines, the drinking water of as many as 96 million Americans would exceed the safety limit for lead levels. “I do have a point of contact with another church it will be the distributing agency once we have those case of water distributed there”, said Adams.

“There was failure at the local, the state and the federal level”, Snyder said, just before signing the legislation.

On Friday, Snyder once again shouldered part of the responsibility for Flint’s water crisis.

“I have strongly and continually stated that is it essential for all levels of government to work together to help Flint recover from this crisis, as it was all levels of government that failed Flint“.

Flint, Michigan will soon receive a big delivery as residents continue to struggle with lead-tainted water.

Jec McCue, who owns Longmont’s Red Star Plumbing and has customers up and down the Front Range, said he’s heard some concerns from people. They are not able to drink the water. The lead-infected water that is now affecting a portion of the residents of the city has rendered anything that comes out of the tap undrinkable and unusable for cooking or bathing.

Residents of southwest OH are helping its neighbors to the north as a MI city goes through a water crisis. Some children’s blood has tested positive for lead, a potent neurotoxin linked to learning disabilities, lower IQ and behavioral problems. “We understand that this is not a long-term solution, but they need water now”.

Pridgen says he took his Operation H2O to some of Flint’s poorer neighborhoods to make sure those who could get to the distribution stations got water. As such, the Flint River (which had been avoided as a water source for decades due to its history of industrial pollution) began to provide over 16 million gallons of water a day to the 100,000 citizens of Flint.

Gagnon said awareness of situations like the one in Flint, combined with a 2010 corrosion control guideline from Health Canada and the “greater outreach” that municipalities have undertaken, may help to reduce the number of Canadians at risk in the years to come.

Researchers with the Canadian Water Network said communities built before about 1950 are far more likely to have used lead in either their municipal water mains or the service lines connecting them to local buildings.