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Governor decided they would save money by switching flint over to a new drinking water source. and the state okayed them going ahead with the switch without treating that water to make it safe. the rick snyder administration then compounded the problem and the poisoning of flint's kids by ignoring the warning signs of rising lead levels first in the city's water and then inevitably in the bloodstream of the children of that city. last week michigan governor rick snyder announced the reds-nations of the head of the state environmental agency that failed to protect flint's water and also the spo...

Managers working for the governor decided they would save money by switching flint over to a new drinking water source. and the state okayed them going ahead with the switch without treating that water to make it safe. the rick snyder administration then compounded the problem and the poisoning of flint's kids by ignoring the warning signs of rising lead levels first in the city's water and then inevitably in the bloodstream of the children of that city. last week michigan governor rick snyder announced the resignations of the head of the state environmental agency that failed to protect flint...

This first weekend of 2016 the state of michigan, it was cold. but in lots of places this year the winter didn't start off feeling like winter but now it feels like winter. and in that cold with freezing temperatures and high cold winds in michigan this weekend the day after new year's dozens of people bundled up and set out across the city of flint, michigan as volunteers to hand out free bottled water to people who live in that town. we've been covering this story recently, the story of how the rick snyder administration in michigan ended up giving lead poisoning to kids in the town of flint...

Getting into the new system. flint's emergency manager decided not to try to work something out with detroit but instead they went with option b. they decided to macgyver it. he signed that order, that june 2013 order to -- for flint to get ready to use it as the primary drinking water source for at least a couple of years. a few months after that, april 2014 with flint now being run by yet another emergency manager, flint unhooked itself from detroit's water and started drinking from the mighty, mighty flint river. the following month that new emergency manager in flint decided to sell the pi...

Hire an engineering firm to get the city ready for using the flint river as a primary drinking water source. at the time the state appointed one man government for flint, michigan. the state-appoint emergency manager was trying to carry out a plan that the city counsel had voted for back in the day. which was to try to save money by having flint buy its drinking water from detroit. they'd always bought water from detroit and it was expensive and they decided that flint was broke. they needed to save money, needed to get a better deal for flint so, they wanted to use a new water system, be part...