The genre of this article is informative and persuasive as well. Some of the clues I used to arrive at this answer, where, the background story of what happened in flint’s water supply. Some of the victim’s stories, and the harmful side-effects especially to children, were very persuasive and emotional.
This is important because it is hard to imagine that the poisoning of water that occurred in flint is something that can be happing in the twenty first century. The officials’ pervious knowledge of the issue, yet, their continuous re-assurance to the people that the water is safe to drink, is something difficult