British Guy Reacting to The Flint Water Disaster and How It Happened

[@Jml416]

He kept saying the water looked like piss....if your piss looks like that, you need to see a doctor! Lol

[@ViolentKisses87]

Why are their floaty bits in your piss Luka?

[@marvlessmarvin]

I mean when I went to the ER as a result some viral infection / flu a couple years back, my piss was that bright deep orange and let me tell you...it scares you more than seeing your own arm chopped off lol. Looking at all these bottles side by side was basically my urine as my health got worse and I was dangerously dehydrated. Since that day I definitely don't take water for granted lol.

[@TipsTricksandTalents]

I’m sorry bro I was just passing through from MI though

[@LeannahW]

when I get really sick because of my liver enzyme disorder my urine turns purple with sunlight...it's also really dark and it sometimes does concern me yes lmao

[@PrincessofKeys]

He said it looked like Piss or Apple Juice though

[@BN_ECHO]

I grew up near flint, there were many people who were evicted for not paying their water bill. imagine being forced to pay for this slop

[@kalandkarazor-el3088]

How do you get evicted from not paying for water? They just turn your water off unless it's a state controlled property or something?

[@SarahBuhrmanKalisara]

@@kalandkarazor-el3088 In an apartment complex, the water bill can come through an add on to rent. If you don't pay those added bills & fees, you are evicted for non-payment of rent.

[@BN_ECHO]

@@kalandkarazor-el3088 remember, this is after the major industry has been removed for over a decade. when the factories left, the parts manufactures also left, the trucking and shipping of parts stopped, gas stations closed, stores and restaurants closed, more than half of the city is abandoned. the residents whom lived threw the crisis were mostly families that only have roots in the fallen city. majority did live off of the state, from food stamps, to unemployment from said industries being gone. the state would pay you for your bills, so you and your family could live, but when residents refused to use said money to pay for poison water, the state would take what actions they could take. hope this is some helpful.

[@theresedavis2526]

Only in America.

[@mbell367]

As someone who lives an hour south of flint, it means a lot that you're talking about what's happening here. It's still pretty bad and a lot of people still can't use their home water.

[@jrottendevil]

Thankfully the local government didn't waste any of the $100 million+ that the federal government sent them to fix the issue.

[@BN_ECHO]

same here, but a hour north. we would play basketball games in flint high school, and they had given us tap water during the game, before anyone knew it was potentially a hazard.

[@sathlasdalaraynidridlendar6875]

@@jrottendevil hahahahs

[@SGlitz]

@@jrottendevil just wasted the 50 years before this

[@LGN_Sniper]

@@jrottendevil lol

[@andrewverburg1805]

Michigan (Metro-Detroit) Resident here, This is one of the most frustrating thing that have occurred in recent history. This was a Humanitarian crisis that was caused by ineptitude. The part that always angered me is that this become a political issue. The issue was covered up. When I think of those poor children and citizens my blood boils. Michigan is one of the richest in terms of Freshwater. The state is full of rivers and the largest freshwater lakes in the world. this should have never happened, it should have been handled differently, and i'm scared of the long term implications from this.

[@mandystory4275]

I hope you and your family are ok. I am hopeful that all the pipes get replaced with all the infustructure building that will be happening soon.

[@andrewverburg1805]

@@mandystory4275 in in Metropolitan Detroit. So I'm all good

[@TheSilael]

The reason it became political is because Former Governor Snyder lied and covered it up at first (then never fixed it as promised), and Former A.G. Schuette ignored the calls from the poisoned residents. Governor Whitmer is wanting to fix it with an infrastructure bill but the MI Senators keep blocking her.

[@joestewart5406]

All the dead bodys and chemicals in the flint water eroded the coating on the pipes.

[@joestewart5406]

They drain the dam once a year and there’s multiple cars in there and thats just was comes down stream who knows whats in the rest.

[@blackbirdrds]

I did a paper on the flint water crisis and how it effect the human body, got a A on it. Lead is hard to get rid of the body because it thinks it's calcium and absorb it. Also lead can cause developmental problem learning disables and skeletal problems.

[@48mavemiss2]

Yup. It’s the reason landlords get fined/sued when they don’t fix pealing old paint. Kids/babies put it in their mouths.

[@SGlitz]

I grew up with it in the 1970s

[@SGlitz]

@Machina and I guarantee you Flint is still trying to get the lead out 55 years later. So I guess that makes it all better.

[@halfsquat24]

It's still mind-blowing to me that a local area has so much coverage across the world, as it rightfully should. It just never feels like these communities get any help or recognition for their problems.

[@joestewart5406]

Flint needs coverage of its fentanyl and shooting problems the south side is bad right now.

[@halfsquat24]

@@joestewart5406 nobody outside local is gonna pick it up though there’s drug problems everywhere

[@joestewart5406]

@@halfsquat24 not like it is in flint the local police do nothing

[@toyota420xp]

Lead Symptoms include abdominal pain, neurologic changes, and irritability and fatigue. At very high levels, it can be fatal.

[@sluggo206]

During the water crisis the government distributed bottled water from what I heard, and Walmart got there first with bottled water. But you had to go pick up a box of bottles at the fire station every week, and it wasn't enough for proper showers and washing, just a limited amount for drinking and a little more. That's what I heard on the news; in my region the mountain water is very clean so these issues don't come up.

[@vardogr]

Greeting from Flint MI. I remember watching this unfold on the news and it was terrifying. The residents knew something was wrong from the start. It was the poor who seemed to be affected the most. So many suffered so the appointed city manager could save money.

[@SGlitz]

And this was going on in the 1970s....

[@RAMENn00dleb0y]

Thanks for taking an interest in an incredibly important issue in America. The whole situation is an utter disgrace to our nation and it's unbelievable it's still not solved. It's a huge embarrassment to the country. "I'm hoping a lot of people are jailed of this" yeah I say that pretty regularly but not much seems to happen.

[@blueboyblue]

Everyone I see in the Govt or Business who SHOULD get jailed, never does. The game is clearly rigged. Now we have to work to un-rig it.

[@n.eve.rmore_ig]

This is one of the most frustrating issues to have happened recently. The fact that this was all caused by people's greed and desire for money, the fact that it was escalated because of how people in power just... didn't care, and how it didn't need to happen in the first place because Michigan is full of giant lakes, it's not like they have no fresh water.

[@sparky082]

The centralia, pa mine story is very interesting. Mine fire caused a town to be evacuated, cus the mine can't be put out and it's still burning to this day

[@dcoxdon]

I was born and raised in Flint (Still go up that way every weekend). Flint CHARGED citizens for that "water". As others have said, people were evicted for not paying their water bills.

[@Ojisan642]

Lead affects the brain and leads to cognitive impairment especially in children.

[@rohanfortunati5188]

Mhm, the fall of the roman Empire is often contributed to use of lead in Plates, Glasses, Silverware (leadware?), and pipes. Pretty much just everything

[@theresedavis2526]

@@rohanfortunati5188 It's also attributed to the influx of foreign tribes and interbreeding. Another attribute was greed and ambition for power.

[@jerrykinworthy9225]

Where I live in Medora Indiana, our water turns grey and smells like rotten eggs and every time there is a rain storm it comes out black from the faucet. There are a lot of places in America where there is substandard water quality.

[@Jzombi301]

we learned about this in my high school chemistry class in 2015. i knew it was a recent thing at the time but i thought it was like a couple years before. i didnt realize it was literally still happening as we were learning about it. i guess i wasnt paying attention to the dates

[@jessieb-k2317]

I love that you look up answers to your questions in your videos.

[@otnat2094]

Congrats on reacting to your first SciShow video! Here's hoping for many more!

[@aquiamorgan2416]

You should react to videos about the Centralia mine fire. It's a town that has been forcibly disbanded because the coal mine underneath has been burning for decades.

[@Trenton-om9qs]

I dont live in Michigan but i remember hearing about this on the news

[@Kinikko]

Born and raised here in Flint. Thank you so much for taking time to react to a couple videos about the crisis. :) I was fortunate enough to live in a house with well water and not city water so I wasn't affected personally, but I will never in my life drink tap water again after all this.

[@anne-marie8018]

Sci Show!! I'm so glad you found them; they are amazing!

[@andidreyes5323]

Dude, there are places in the US where you can light the water on fire as it flows from your faucet. There's a serious problem on reservations with no running water whatsoever. Also areas where people live downstream of chemical plants or fracking or coal production where the water is so dangerous that the paid-off EPA (environmental protection agency) actually HAS to heavily fine companies.

[@SonOfTheLion]

The water burns because of methane in the reservoir. This is natural and means you may even be a good candidate for fracking. The water in the US is very good compared to the rest of the world. Flint is an exception not the rule.

[@andidreyes5323]

@@SonOfTheLion You say this but there's a well-known water philanthropist who was himself SHOCKED by the vast issues simply getting good, clean water in the US is. They've done multiple full documentaries on this issue because of issues with pipes, etc. I'm not saying a lot of areas are fine but most have serious issues and a bunch of areas need the infrastructure money for new pipes. Areas where the aquafires are going dry from the serious overuse in farming areas. I'll admit that I'm not a student of water issues but we've been doing documentaries for over 20 years on the water crises many, MANY US areas are having or pretending isn't happening. I've been watching them since I was 17 and I'm 40 now. And while drinking methane might be harmless, if it's continually seeping into your homes air it's not.

[@SonOfTheLion]

@@andidreyes5323 I would cool it on the "documentaries".

[@andidreyes5323]

@@SonOfTheLion Cause one every 4 years is wrong? I take half the things they say in documentaries as semi-true then do my own research. You should too.

[@SonOfTheLion]

@@andidreyes5323 I would love to chat about factory farms dumping pesticides into ponds, plastic bottles leeching chemicals into "purified water", the broader health consequences of indiscriminate fluoride dosing in public water and all sorts of other things. However this doesn't change the fact that the water in the vast majority of the US is not outright toxic, certainly not like Flint's.

[@HahnJames]

In Michigan, the words, "selfless" and "politician" are rarely, if ever, used in the same sentence.

[@theresedavis2526]

In AMERICA, the words selfless and politician can rarely, if ever, be used!

[@hookxry]

something kinda similar happened in the 1950s-60s in chelmsford massachusetts and it like killed a bunch of kids and stopped their growth and my grandma actually lived thruogh it and almost died and she is only 4'10 bc of it. there is a movie about it too i forget the name tho

[@KeffandMac]

Centralia, Pennsylvania is my recommendation. BSF did a good short documentary on it.

[@cheeseninja1115]

as someone who gets there water from a well the orange/yellow is iron in the water. Technically not bad for you but still tastes like eating rust, you wouldn't even be able to see the difference with just lead as it would be invisible unless it flacked off in the pipes!

[@bennettveith1301]

I live an hour north of Flint. In high school, I was on the swim team and we had a few swim meets in Flint. Thankfully the pool water was separate from the city water, but we were given bottled water and told not to use the showers in the locker room.

[@jake5210]

I lived in Flint as a kid in the early 90's. My sister didn't talk to me for 2 years because one time i jokingly told her that she should sue Flint for destroying her IQ with lead . 😂

[@alfonsoarmendariz1416]

I live in cali and won't even give my dogs tap water even though it's clear and supposed to be safe

[@BlueToast.]

Nice video my guy

[@blueboyblue]

Why do I have a feeling that while the State/City tried to save money, the people in charge found a way to make money out of it.

[@Cubs-Fan.10]

The same reason why when we question the government, we're called traitors. But when the government questions the people, it's called politics. It's a sick side of our nation.

[@blueboyblue]

@@Cubs-Fan.10 - - How I wish you were wrong.

[@blueboyblue]

There was a time when I took great pride in telling Foreign people in the US and in their Home Country, that from the smallest town to the largest city, the water in the USA was _Safe._ Then Flint happened, then about a year later I read that 400 Cities had water just as bad a Flint. A year after that, I read that *3,000* Towns and Cities had water that was NOT up to standards. That 3,000 cities is 60 per State. There are low population States that don't even have 60 cities; towns and villages maybe, but not cities. I'm in a relatively pristine part of the Country, basically farm land where we used deep (+100ft wells) and I really can't be sure that those Aquifers are not contaminated with farm run off. So, despite being in a rural area with our own private water source, surrounded by fresh surface water, I still drink bottle water which is cheap enough at $0.80 per gallon. But I never thought the USA would fall this far.

[@DynamoGooner]

See also; the Texas power grid.

[@theresedavis2526]

@@blueboyblue What made you think that US water would be safe in many places??

[@stpaley]

it was known by the city managers what was going on, corporations were warned that their equipment would be damaged it they used the water, as usual property means more then lives in the US

[@jasonvaquero9739]

Thanks for acknowledging at not everyone is a fan of Vox. Not all but a handful of their videos tend to be “a bit” biased. Great video man 👍🏻

[@austinknox8088]

Thank you for watching videos on this. My grandmother lives in Flint and consumed some of the dirty water

[@pearlofthedarkage]

I majored in environmental science. Flint was the topic of many of my papers. Like how the two videos covered the crisis from different angles, so too do my papers. It's very convoluted, and there are a lot of details!

[@Jordan-el3jz]

I used to live in Flint, MI and this video is the reason why i moved

[@fractal4284]

Lead affects the central nervous system in the brain it can cause convulsions and a long list of issues memory loss learning disabilities it's really bad

[@MrBobbyz24]

The governor of Michigan responsible for this was criminally charged back in January of this year.

[@davidorioli3870]

I think they still haven't fixed the situation.

[@sophiedash4026]

They haven't. It is a method of gentrification. Kill off or make the poor population move out. Then buy up the properties for cheap, tear down the houses and rebuild mid/high end houses/commercial structures. Another way of taking from the poor to benefit the rich, and another contribution to the housing crisis. PS. Please note the majority population in Flint is African American.

[@halfsquat24]

Im from this area and no they haven't. The people who live in flint had essentially been forgotten and left to suffer for years

[@sharonsmith583]

Congratulations to growing your channel!! Really enjoy your reactions

[@conquestmomma]

Thank you for reacting to this crisis in my home state!! I'm from North East Michigan and can't believe how the State government of Michigan & Lansing-'is ruining our beautiful state and it's own inhabitants!

[@Lon.BedStuyforLife]

5:45 the water is safe? Hell No! The only time your water should turn brown is when you put a tea bag in your tea cup...

[@willjohnson8446]

You should check out Centralia, Pennsylvania. It was a coal mining town until the mine caught on fire in 1962 and has been burning ever since.

[@sc1338]

Lead is fine to use if the water is pH stabilized

[@PerthTowne]

That was terrific! So well explained.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

Thank you for getting this important info out there🤗🐝❤️

[@TheRyansLion]

Thankfully tap water here in Colorado is sometimes better than bottled water

[@metrofilmer8894]

Agree. That’s one of the many things that make the mountains great

[@teenystudioflicks1635]

They outsourced the planning to people who were not personally invested with the communities there. They tried to cut corners without good planning or consideration of the effect that could happen to the 'living' part of their plan. The bigger cost in this tragedy won't be seen until time has passed and we see the effects on all these children and the others who ingested the toxic water.

[@Soundersandusmnt]

Flint will fix its water crisis before Luka activates his windows

[@TonyG4206]

We had a similar situation around Newark New Jersey recently, some crazy stuff

[@reesecuppycup210]

I’m from Flint. We’re doing much better now. I’m shocked you’ve watched this!

[@chrisserfass8635]

Lav Luka you should do a reaction video of the Pepcon explosion that happened in Henderson Nevada. Or maybe even Killdozer.

[@terrynasonisasupervillain9017]

Nice video

[@guccilibrarian4728]

Geez, was their only solution to anything to just add more chloride to the water??

[@joestewart5406]

We have filters in everything building now you can request to receive one and they instal it. The flint river is full of dead bodys and cars i wouldnt be suprised if jimmy hoffa is in there

[@SUPRAMIKE18]

@@joestewart5406 honestly Jimmy Hoffa in the Flint river stuffed in the trunk of an old Cadillac wouldn't even surprise me lol

[@YT-Observer]

LEAD exposure takes some time to get out of a person if it ever does - "heavy metals" in bodies sometimes take special medical protocols to remove them. Also, the dangerous parts of the water contamination weren't even visible,]. IRON and some of the other stuff coloring the water was relatively begine compared to the INVISIBLE bad stuff.

[@austinblades8903]

bunch of people in my town bought out tons of bottled water and loaded it into a big moving truck that they drove to flint to donate.

[@user-Mike8290]

SKIDMORE, Missouri is a city with an interesting story.

[@ronclark9724]

My favorite environmental disaster is Picher, Oklahoma. The lead mines that supplied most of the Arsenal of Democracy's lead bullets during the Second World War is now a ghost town... Also lead mined to produce batteries. Batteries are produced with highly toxic stuff, every kind of battery from lead acid to lithium-ion... The Greens never bring this up...

[@danielm6049]

Don't forget Times Beach too

[@starcravingmatt]

Dude, the story of Skidmore makes me proud to be a Missourian! When the law fails, become the law!

[@isaaclemmen6500]

The best video on that story I've found is the video titled "Ken Rex McElroy" by the youtube channel Cadaber although there is also a video by Count Dankula which is also pretty good. Cadaber: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eInSl6Ged7FoZ68 Dankula: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qICsqZafdq1ric0

[@starcravingmatt]

@@luissantacruz2738 Eso es moy triste! Lamentable! Viven en Mexico por dos años y tuve problemos con los Zetas... Entiendo el dolor. Todos son bienvenidos aqui! (Por favor, discuple mi español)

[@JJJRRRJJJ]

I live a couple hours from Flint and I know shockingly little about this. All I know is that there was lead in it due to old pipes or something.

[@Flagsitta]

In Pennsylvania the water is flammable thanks to fracking.

[@grahamparks1645]

Also learn about the Cuyahoga river fire and fracking & us water that catches fire due to fracking

[@addikotter4351]

my mom got legionnaires from the mclaren water issues, nearly died. was in a coma for 2 weeks

[@nathanmoore564]

I was wondering when your were going to get around to a Flint reaction. Took ya long enough 😅😉

[@Twangsk8r]

Yeah he did mention this recently! I couldn't believe he hadn't covered it already

[@Tony-es9jx]

You should check out Chemical Valley by Vice. Similar topic to this video but much less famous and also in Michigan

[@adriangonzalez3yearsago927]

Uh oh, forgot to link the original video

[@lynrossi8409]

Watch the movie! Flint! Came out in 2017, I think.

[@kjsalomonsen9299]

When this first came to lite by The Rachel Maddow Show, the people of Flint were having to go to Detroit to take showers, bathe thier children and wash thier clothes. They had to pick up bottles of water bring it home heat it up so they could wash the dishes. Some said that they were not going to pay their water bill, since they couldn't use the water. They were told, if they didn't pay their bill and they had kids, they would be turned over to Child Protective Services (CPS) for failure to provide for their child. In other words they could lose custody of their child if, they didn't pay their water bill for water they couldn't use.

[@alex22153]

U should react too a vid of the downfall of Detroit

[@austinknox8088]

Agreed

[@sydlawson3181]

I live in Michigan and as of yet nobody has been charged for the flint water crisis. The courts are literally just throwing up their hands its disgusting

[@m.ferguson1021]

This is a bit of a heavier topic - but it would be interesting to see your reactions to the Residential school systems in Canada and the US, especially given the recent discovery of a mass grave at one of the schools in BC, Canada. I think Vox made a video about it, but I am sure that there is several other videos you could watch.

[@The3rdGunman]

Where I live in Kentucky we're lucky to have some of the best water in the country (In the Top 10)

[@TheMajorActual]

This is my obligatory shoutout for the Gold King Mine Spill.

[@rfmerrill]

Michael Moore (who later got known for Bowling For Columbine, Sicko etc) made his first successful film about his hometown of Flint, MI. It's called "Roger & Me" and it's really good, you should watch it (even if you can't react to a whole movie). When the US auto industry moved a lot of their production to Mexico and overseas, Detroit was hit hard, but nearby smaller cities like Flint were hit even harder. Detroit lost most of its jobs, Flint lost nearly all of them.

[@jimmyjamqwerty17]

Omg yass! This is OC, like wtf… 🤷‍♂️ there are places in Kentucky that have no power or internet in the mountains and it’s the poorest part in America…. We have some bad spots bro 🥴

[@2AwesomeDogs]

I live in Owosso Michigan about 21 miles east of Flint Michigan. It was Dam bad and yhe flint residents got 6.5 million dollars

[@kokomo9764]

I would not drink tap water from Flint or Detroit. In fact I purchased a whole house reverse osmosis system and even with that I still test my water occasionally. There has never been a problem in my city but I had no problem investing a few thousand dollars to protect myself.

[@TheMilkMan8008]

You shoukd watch the video "Debunking Spider Myths & Misconceptions" by Thomas Shahan. It gives very interesting information and helps get rid of some of the fear people have. I keep spiders, almost 60 of them, and I love getting this knowlege out there. As a reactor you have not only yourself, but a whole audience to share this video and knowlege with. It doesn't mention the UK because the UK has only 3 notable species of biting spiders and no species of medical significance.

[@SGlitz]

Fear? Like COVID. :)

[@TheMilkMan8008]

@@SGlitz what do you mean?

[@SGlitz]

@@TheMilkMan8008 did I commit a thoughtcrime?

[@TheMilkMan8008]

@@SGlitz what are you talking about?

[@SGlitz]

@@TheMilkMan8008 never mind. You won't understand

[@bellsTheorem1138]

Lead mostly leads to child brain development issues. Among other things.

[@UrMom-ls3hs]

Look at Kudzu, it is everywhere in the south, and literally grows a foot a day

[@caleboconnors1919]

As far as I remember they still have this problem now

[@faqgougle7641]

Ingesting lead basicaly causes brain damage. And the US being as huge is whole is a first world country, but if it ever broke up plenty of places within it: Indian reservations, inner cities ghettos, rural communities across Appalachia and the deep south; if considered on their own would essentially be third world countries.

[@theresedavis2526]

The US IS a 3rd world country, masquerading as a 1st world power.

[@TipsTricksandTalents]

I was just in flint last Saturday

[@SGlitz]

I was there in 2017 after leaving in 1983. Born there. Man, it was depressing.

[@The0Minecraftian]

As a Michigan resident I would probably say this is the most shameful government failure that has happened in our state's history, and there are plenty of other examples, the housing situation in Detroit being the other major one. People always judge Michigan off of these things, and honestly they should, it's a disgrace and people suffer because of it, but the worst part is that the government usually doesn't manage to help much, the residents have to put in all the work to fix things and move forwards. But people have learned how to manage and there are plenty of tough people up here. It's a shame that people first had to be subjected to toxic water and then been lied to by public officials before there was progress, it's an atrocity

[@HiSummerWasHere]

Water contamination in America is a MAJOR RABBIT HOLE and it is happening everywhere, all the time. A major problem is coal ash: coal-fired power plants burn coal to produce steam which produces electricity, the byproduct of which is ash made of heavy metal concentrates like boron, lithium, arsenic etc. The plant producing the most coal-powered energy is in a small town called Juliette, Georgia, where Georgia Power has been mixing the toxic coal ash with water and dumping it into unlined pits (which they generously call “ponds” or even “lagoons”) since 1982. The town doesn’t have a public water system, everyone who lives there gets their water from wells, which are drilled right into the contaminated water table. There is a cancer cluster there, water has tested to be massively high in heavy metals, and Georgia Power has admitted no fault but bought properties for $11M which are valued at closer to $2M, knocked down the houses and filled in the wells, and is covering up the ponds and closing the plant. This is one plant of 11 cited for this issue, and those are only in Georgia. Georgia Power’s parent company is Southern Company, who are also the electric provider in Alabama and Mississippi. They also own several nuclear power companies and other huge assets. But they’re not the only ones doing this; Duke Energy in North Carolina is doing the same thing. Poisoning its residents with toxic coal ash in unlined pits dug directly into the water table. This has gotten relatively little attention and is happening everywhere. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXu3hK14fsicg9E

[@LiquidCallous]

lol look at the link to the original video section from the description...

[@randomperson6988]

The real problem wasn’t really the desire to save money but not putting the proper chemicals in the water and not testing it properly

[@jannavozar2634]

When you don't add a chemical to save $100,000 a year it's corrupt.

[@jannavozar2634]

When you rig the testing and hide some of the bad results, it's corrupt.

[@joystanton8552]

You should watch and react to Gordon Lightfoot's "wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" the song is based on true events. it's very very very good!!!

[@avsfan9618]

America is a 1st world and 3rd world country, I lived in a city in Colorado called Arvada from 2018 to 2020 and that place was a perfect example of this you'd drive 5 minutes and you'd be in a wealthy neighborhood drive another 5 minutes down the road and there's beat up houses, heroin needles everywhere and tons of homeless people. Only people who have a lot of money can live a good life here, the government doesn't try to fix these problems they just ignore them.

[@TwistedSisler]

Technically 1st world just means that it's a westernized capitalist nation, but I do get what you mean though.

[@HalkerVeil]

I know one person was given 2 counts of willful neglect. Both misdemeanors carry a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a fine up to $1,000 each. And we all know it will be the lower sentencing of $1000.

[@mandystory4275]

The most fustrating thing about this whole story is that people are still drinking bottled water because nothing has been done to replace the lead pipes.

[@TwistedSisler]

The state has been given funding to fix it several times and always uses the funding elsewhere. That's as much as the federal government is legally allowed to get involved sadly.

[@monrobby]

Biggest fresh water supply in the United States... I live about 25-30 mins from flint. Still pisses me off. (I was not effected) but on top of fighting high crime and poverty, people had to go through this.

[@lilianasalazar1434]

If u haven't already I suggest look at The Dust Bowl, which is another huge crisis that happened in America

[@lucya9162]

Lookup Van Gogh & lead based paints Luka :)

[@colinf2316]

Welcome to the US. There are many, many more towns and cities in the US like this.

[@theresedavis2526]

This is what happens when one lives in an Aristocracy that pretending to be a Republic.

[@joemomma2517]

Canal Fulton ,Ohio. Monday are water turned purple....

[@joestewart5406]

I live in flint have my whole life almost every house and building has a filtration system now it would cost over 2 billon and would take 20 years to replace all the pipe. Not to mention the flint river being absolutely disgusting they find cars and dead bodys in there year round its like russia overhere

[@Mooftress]

Watch a video on Love Canal. Talk about horror.

[@Mooftress]

I lived in a small town in Ohio that was thinking about allowing a toxic waste incinerator to be built. Many in the area were for it as it would bring jobs to our sleeping, farm town. Then Lois Gibbs from Love Canal came and talked with people. I was young at the time, barely a teenage, but I read her book. I squarely put myself in the "no way in hell" side. It was a several year battle but the company finally backed out. Not because of the people that were voicing stronger and stronger opinions to halt them but due to underground water studies finding a previously unknown major underground river that ran through the farmland which fed directly up to Cleveland that was interconnected with their drinking water! Yeah, that brought this idea to a screeching halt.

[@rhiahlMT]

I suspect we will see more and more problems nationwide as cities and states start having to cut budgets with declining economies. Flint had to cut their budget because of crime and loss of jobs, people moved. Not enough tax money to support the essential services. There is a root problem to all of it, excessive retirement plans to government workers, unions etc. So, they start looking for ways to cut budgets. In this case, it was the water. Illinois is losing people and people aren't moving into the state because the taxes are getting outrageous. Most of the money going into Chicago and the residents in other places are seeing declining infrastructure.

[@kcm4321]

YES, THANK YOU.

[@CaptainJonesBones]

Can you react to some “What Would You Do?”