FLINT'S WATER CRISIS STILL CONTINUES PT 2, RAY FLAUNTROY & REV. PINKNEY

Water is one of the basic needs of life., 5.200 residents of Flint are  denie that human right   For the residents of Flint that are still denied this basic life given right, they are denied clean water.  Flint's water infrastructrue replacenet could take up to 50 years with a cost of in the thousands of hundreds of million dollars.  There are more charges that are being filed against puplic officials in Flint.  2 men have died in Flint from failure of  the city  not being notified  of a Legionnaire’s outbreak that infected 90 people and caused 12 deaths in Genesee County.   Was due to Flint’s water not being properly treated when it was drawn from the city’s river in 2014 and 2015. 5 years later and the horror story continues.  

Flint’s lead pipe water settlement of 2017 is the result of a lawsuit  by Concerned Pastors for Social Action v. Khouri filed  that was filed by Concerned Pastors for Social Action/ ,  Melissa Mays,  a resident of Flint Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the ACLU of Michigan. Under the settlement, the City must seek out and remove Flint’s lead and galvanized steel pipes by 2020.. President Obama signedd a 10 Billion dollar water infrasture bill which $170 millon was for Flint.   The EPA, under President Trump of March 2017 awarded the grant to Michigan.  Yet the people are still living without clean water in 2019.

Life for theresidents of Flint is a hard one.