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Flint water crisis

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history The Flint water crisis, developed after Flint city in Michigan, tried to save millions of dollars by converting the water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. The Flint water crisis is from the Flint River, has high chloride concentration and is more corrosive than water of Lake Huron. As a result, lead poisoning in the water was leaching through a secular change pipe. More than 100,000 inhabitants had drinking water thought to be high in Leint's lead concentration. In addition, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of the Hurley Medical Center discovered that the city switched to Flint Michigan's water, so that the amount of lead found in Flint's infants and children's blood samples was nearly doubled . Flint, Michigan and Legionnaires disease The Flint water crisis was reported in 87 cases of Legionella (water disease) reported by Michigan Governor Lick Snyder (January 13, 2016) between June 2014 and November 2015 in Flint / Michigan There were 12...