Flint River Water Analysis

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The situations played role in the film is the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, where citizens use to drink, cook, and bath in lead contaminated water. It seems to me that the main purpose to switch the city’s water supply from Detroit River to the highly polluted Flint River is economic factors to save $5 million to the city. Flint River water is very corrosive to lead that causing lead contamination in homes. In addition, Flint River has major corrosion on supply pipes that leaching lead into water before flowing into residential home across the city. I believed that lead effects both in human and animal population. Health effects of lead exposure in human including liver, kidney damage, nervous system disorders, cancer, rashes, hair loss,

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