Community Chat

[Lila Belle]

State documents show that employees at the Flint state government office were told not to drink the  water and given bottled water and water coolers because the water wasn't treated and was harmful..

[Nancy Drew]

Disgusting and disgraceful! Not surprised tho.

[sissel]

I am just starting to read about this, some rapper from Flint is getting celebrities to contribute to this cause. My concern is: wonder what other cities have this same problem. If it is there maybe some other cities have it too. Thought the gov. checks our water systems how this got this far is beyond me.

[Snowpuppy]

If you live here then you know this goes back to 2014, the date on that leaked memo. We all knew, it wasn't untl CNN showed up that anyone noticed.

What isn't being more widely reported is now McLaren hospital in Flint is suspected of having legionella in their water back to 2014. The story is on WNEM, a station that covers Flint.

The hospital insists children had the flu, were treated and released.

[Lila Belle]

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@Jackaranda wrote:

Disgusting and disgraceful! Not surprised tho.

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Isn' it ??? The emails about the water not being treated were sent last year !

[Mominohio]

Not surprising. 

But I won't even suggest that we learn to question, investigate and do for ourselves, rather than trust the system. That would just give us less to be disgused about. 

[Annabellethecat66]

I recently had a discussion with a friend at how I'd noticed how many people buy bottled water.  

Go into a COSTCO and you see people in there buying bottled water.  People you'd never think they'd buy something like that (when you see them and what else they're buying).

It crosses all ages and all ethnicitys..  

My family and I have always drank bottled water.  When my girls were growing up we had the big bottles delivered.  After my husband died and my girls moved on, I started buying the bottles.

It's amazing to me that in this day and age in this country we should have to worry about the safety of our water.  I never worried about it being safe, I just didn't like the taste of it.  

I hope it isn't like so many other things in this country.  No one gets punished and it fades away and these poor people are left to deal with it.

Things move fast in this country.  I hope it stays in the headlines.

[sandraskates]

@Annabellethecat66 Bottled water - the "plain" kind in little pastic bottles can also be sourced from municipal water supplies so it is not necessarily better than tap water. You have to read the labels carefully to see where it is sourced from.

[RoughDraft]

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@sissel wrote:

I am just starting to read about this, some rapper from Flint is getting celebrities to contribute to this cause. My concern is: wonder what other cities have this same problem. If it is there maybe some other cities have it too. Thought the gov. checks our water systems how this got this far is beyond me.

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I suspect many large cities will be "discovering" similar findings.  Just this evening on the late news they stated that my city's water supply system may be "hiding" dangerous contaminants and we're much larger than Flint.  Oh joy!

[QVCkitty1]

This is what concerns me about fracking, which is an issue in my area.Safe drinking water is our most important resource, not just for us, but for future generations. We can't take it for granted.