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Clark, Anna (Anna Leigh)
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Drinking water -- Contamination -- Health aspects -- Michigan -- Flint.
Drinking water -- Lead content -- Michigan -- Flint.
Health risk assessment -- Michigan -- Flint.
Heavy metals -- Toxicity testing -- Michigan -- Flint.
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Clark, Anna (Anna Leigh)
Drinking water -- Contamination -- Health aspects -- Michigan -- Flint.
Drinking water -- Lead content -- Michigan -- Flint.
Health risk assessment -- Michigan -- Flint.
Heavy metals -- Toxicity testing -- Michigan -- Flint.
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The
poisoned
city
:
Flint
's
water
and the
American
urban
tragedy
/ Anna Clark.
by
Clark, Anna (Anna Leigh)
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Call #:
363.61 C592p
Subjects
Drinking
water
-- Contamination -- Health aspects -- Michigan --
Flint
.
Drinking
water
-- Lead content -- Michigan --
Flint
.
Health risk assessment -- Michigan --
Flint
.
Heavy metals -- Toxicity testing -- Michigan --
Flint
.
ISBN:
9781250125149 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
305 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-291) and index.
Summary:
"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
Flint
's children had suffered irreparable harm. The long battle for accountability and a humane response to this man-made disaster has only just begun. In the first full account of this
American
tragedy
, The
Poisoned
City
recounts the gripping story of
Flint
's
poisoned
water
through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any
American
city
, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure and the erosion of democratic decision making. Places like
Flint
are set up to fail--and for the people who live and work in them, the consequences can be fatal."--Dust jacket.
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