Tap Water Problem

According to this article, the tap water in Flint, Michigan became toxic due to the governor’s office and the state Department of Environmental Quality. They were aware of how toxic the water of the Flint river is but decided to ignore the issue and did not treat the water properly. One of the reasons of why they decided to to switch their water supply from Lake Huron to Flint river was because Flint was declared to be in a financial state of emergency and so they took a budgetary control. Making the switch of water supply was going to save them some money but no matter the circumstances, they knew how harmful that water supply was therefore, they must have purposefully harmed these people for some greater reason than for just saving themselves …show more content…
The state DEQ wasn’t treating the Flint river water with the anti-corrosive agent required which violates the federal law which caused the water to erode water mains, turning the water brown.Half of the service lines to flint homes are made of lead and due to the lack of properly treated water the lead began leaching into the water supply along with the iron. Many concerned doctors took blood lead levels of toddlers which doubled and tripled, lead is considered one of the most damaging things you can do to a population.It drops a humans IQ significantly, affects behavior, it’s linked to criminality, and has multigenerational impacts. Proper nutrition and early childhood education can help minimize the damage for the lead poisoned children but that’s incredibly hard to do in Flint, Michigan where this city of 100,000 doesn’t even have a grocery store. People like Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of Flint’s Hurley Medical Center decided to investigate and take matters into their own hands as soon as they noticed something was not right and were able to get their voices heard despite the state publicly denounce her work and studies which turned out to be