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Anna Clark

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-250-18161-9
  • EAN: 9781250181619
  • Produktnummer: 31883259
  • Verlag: Macmillan USA
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.3 cm 295 g
  • Gewicht: 295

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