Gov. Rick Snyder Should Be Forced to Drink Nothing But Contaminated Flint Water for the Rest of His Life
As I write this, I have a fresh glass of ice cold water sitting next to me.
It is so clear I can see the wood grain of the the table through it. When I put it to my mouth, my lips almost go numb from the cold.
I gulp down way more than I should. In moments, it seems, the glass is empty.
Nothing satisfies like a crisp simple glass of water.
But in Flint, Michigan, that straightforward, easy pleasure can kill you.
And-or poison your children, cause learning disabilities, hearing loss, vomiting, high blood pressure, pain or numbness in the extremities, infertility or miscarriage. Among a host of other equally terrible maladies.
From the water.
Nine months ago the state officials who took over running Flint because the city was just too darn poor for self government, they shut off the flow of already treated Lake Huron water from Detroit. They replaced it with untreated raw water from the Flint River. The plan was to save money by treating this water, themselves, from a source that had been continually polluted for decades by the disappearing auto industry.
However, this noxious brew corroded the pipes, stripped out the lead and put it right into the water glasses Flint parents were using to hydrate their children.
More than 8,500 children. With high amounts of lead in their blood. Suffering untold Gov. Rick Snyder Should Be Forced to Drink Nothing But Contaminated Flint Water for the Rest of His Life | gadflyonthewallblog:
