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Flint Water Crisis: What's in that Contaminated Water

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Sat, 2016-01-23 17:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

          

LeeAnne Walters shows water samples from her Flint home. Photograph: Ryan Garza/AP

theguardian.com - by Mona Chalabi - January 22, 2016

. . . Here are some fast facts about just what’s in the Flint water and how it came to pass.

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Sat, 2016-01-23 18:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cnn.com - by Joshua Berlinger - January 22, 2016

For several weeks now, city and state officials have traded barbs over who is ultimately responsible for the toxic water that's inundated Flint, Michigan.

On Thursday, the feds said they both are.

In an emergency administrative order, the Environmental Protection Agency slammed the city of Flint, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the State of Michigan, saying they are all responsible for the lead contamination in the city's water.

Their responses to the crisis, the EPA said, were "inadequate to protect public health."

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