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Detroit-supplied Lake Huron water was replaced with Flint River water as the city of Flint, Michigan's municipal water supply source, on April 25, 2014. As a result of the move, municipal drinking water supply pipes began to degrade and leak lead and other toxins.
Who was most affected by Flint water crisis?
African-Americans
One of the nation's worst recent public health problems was the Flint water crisis. As it affected a city of about 100,000 inhabitants, more than half of whom are African-American, the case came to represent racial inequity in the United States.
Operators of water treatment facilities often employ an anti-corrosive chemical to stop drinking water from interacting with the metals, but Flint never did. 8 As a result, the city's old lead pipes deteriorated from the acidic water, allowing heavy metals to flow into the public drinking water supply.
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