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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Bloomsbury Children's Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Roots and margins
- Pure, natural, mineral
- "The water is biting them"
- To the dome
- Big worries here
- Ten thousand children
- A good guess
- Water out of control
- Trust fall
- "The big red flag"
- A whistle blows
- Denial
- Convergence
- Blood speaks
- A tipping point
- A world rocked
- Surrender
- A ceaseless trail
- "A gaggle of bottled waters"
- Blame without end
- "We can save ourselves"
- Coming back where?
- Roaring uphill
- "My destiny is dismal"
- "But a flint holds fire" / by Andrea Ramsey.
