The main idea of this passage is that sending bottled water to the people affected by the Flint water crisis doesn’t really help them. It is stated in the text that it would simply take too much bottled water to actually make a difference. As shown in this sentence,” 102,000 citizens times 200 bottles of water – which equals 20.4 million 16oz. bottles of water per day. The author also states that sending bottled water doesn’t reverse the damage that has already been done. This is shown in the following sentence, “The reason you can’t help is that you cannot reverse the irreversible brain damage that has been inflicted upon every single child in Flint.” These things help the author’s argument that we shouldn’t send bottled water, but instead
