POISONED WATER: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned a Nation
In 2014, the residents of Flint, Michigan noticed that their water was a copper hue and smelled and tasted like sulfur. Some residents began using bottled water, but many of those who didn’t started to experience rashes, hair loss, children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Still, city officials claimed water tests were normal. It wasn’t until nearly a year later when Flint resident Lee Ann Walters sent a water sample to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) herself that the truth came out: the citizens of Flint were being poisoned by their own water supply.
Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and news accounts, journalist Candy J. Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveal the true story of Flint. Poisoned Water shows not just how the crisis unfolded in 2014 but is a riveting look at an alarming story of a government who turned away from its citizens – and the power of those same citizens who rose up to demand action.
