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Poisoned Water - How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation (Hardcover)
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Poisoned Water - How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 600
You Save R83 (15%)
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Based on original reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an
industry veteran, the first book for young adults about the Flint
water crisis In 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city
that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motors. As part
of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint
would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the
Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes.
Then it got worse: children stopped growing. Some people were
hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Citizens of
Flint protested that the water was dangerous. Despite what seemed
so apparent from the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the
city's faucets, officials refused to listen. They treated the
people of Flint as the problem, not the water, which was actually
poisoning thousands. Through interviews with residents and
intensive research into legal records and news accounts, journalist
Candy J. Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveals
the true story of Flint. Poisoned Water shows not just how the
crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and
segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that
fueled it, and how the people of Flint fought--and are still
fighting--for clean water and healthy lives.
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