Poisoned water how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, 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. Children stopped gr...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Children's Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2020.
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| Summary: | Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, 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. Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Despite the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets, officials refused to listen. Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and news accounts, Cooper and Aronson show not just how the crisis unfolded, but also the history of racism and segregation that led up to it, and how the people of Flint fought-- and are still fighting-- for clean water and healthy lives. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Audience: | Grades 10-12. |
| ISBN: | 9781547602322 1547602325 |
| Author Notes: | Candy J. Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. She has been a staff writer for four newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press and the San Francisco Examiner . Her work has appeared in the New York Times , the Columbia Journalism Review , and the Chronicle of Higher Education , among other publications. She is also the author of several books for classroom use. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey. |
