Michigan is set to announce that it has finally replaced all of the lead water pipes in the city of Flint. The news comes a decade after lead-contaminated water was first found in its water system, ...
Estimates suggest as many as 12,000 children have elevated levels of lead in their blood as a result of Flint, Mich., switching its water supply to a less expensive, but more corrosive water source.
A young inventor, Gitanjali Rao, created a lead-detecting device inspired by the Flint water crisis. Her innovation, born ...
It’s been more than a decade since the alarm was sounded about high levels of lead in Flint, Michigan’s tap water. This July, the city said it had completed the work of replacing as many as 11,000 ...
After the Flint water crisis, Michigan became a national leader on safe drinking water, requiring the removal of lead pipes and the reduction of harmful "forever chemicals" years before the federal ...
Flint's mayor has floated a shockingly high price tag to fix the Michigan city's lead-contamination problem: $1.5 billion to replace damaged pipes. Gov. Rick Snyder put the figure at $700 million. In ...
DETROIT – The Flint water problem has caused the state to declare a public health emergency. While the state tries to find a permanent solution to the problem, two Detroit men are taking it upon ...