Summary: The Flint Water Crisis

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My article is about the Flint water crisis and how people still can’t drink the water there. Three years ago Flint leaders decided to switch the city's water source to Lake Huron. Lake Huron is a heavily polluted Lake that many businesses dump waste into. The city’s leaders decided to change the water source because the city went bankrupt and the leaders wanted to save money. The water change was only supposed to be temporary and save the city five million dollars. People in the city notices the water wasn’t the same after the water turned a brownish color and smelled bad. The water has caused many health problems for the people living there because people’s hair would fall out after bathing in the water also thousands of people suffered from

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