The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives.It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the water was poisonous. By that time, twelve people had died and…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-12514-9
- EAN: 9781250125149
- Produktnummer: 24037181
- Verlag: Metropolitan Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.2 cm 503 g
- Gewicht: 503
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Anna Clark
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