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Loss, rashes and blood pressure issues. we'll be told everything spawn -- >> eight years, on flint is using another water source and replaced many pipes, but she and her neighbors still cook with and drink bottled water, using upwards of ten cases a week. >> do you drink out of your tap water? >> no. i'll never drink the water there. >> flint, like jackson, it's predominantly black with a low tax base, which experts say, plays a significant role in their water woes. what does justice look like to you? >> we know they're not going to tell the truth. we know that they're not going to -- the only...
That took out the water treatment plant, where pumps had already been failing, leading 150,000 plus residents without safe drinking water. do you remember when the water seemed to go bad here, and jackson? >> ten, 12 years. >> more than a decades? >> it really got worse. >> families in jackson say the water crisis in the capital city of mississippi started long before long -- even the new head of the environmental protection agency knows that. >> just this year alone, we're gonna make over ten billion dollars available for investments in clean water. >> it sounds like an emergency, like the na...
That trust is going to be hard to come by, because even when jackson said the water was safe over the years, it wasn't. >> my son has 80 80, he is a developmental disorder. he's not caught up with his class. >> jackson had a number of violations from departments of protection agency over decades. >> ten months ago, attorney -- sued on behalf of hundreds of residents who are suffering the effects of lead in their tap water. >> your heart goes out to them because we've experienced that. >> no one understands the suffering of people in jackson better than these folks, residents of flint, michigan...