Not long after Flint, Michigan, started using river water as the local drinking supply, incidences of childhood lead poisoning skyrocketed. For the next several months, residents across the city—many of them Black and below the poverty line—would be exposed to dangerous chemicals from the polluted Flint River without knowing it.
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Source: Phys.org