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  • Flint Water Crisis Deaths Likely Surpass Official Toll

    Flint Water Crisis Deaths Likely Surpass Official Toll

    The death toll in Flint, Michigan, from contaminated water may be much higher than state health officials have acknowledged, an ongoing FRONTLINE investigation has found. The likely killer: Legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia caused by the legionella bacteria. Officially, 90 people were sickened and 12 died from exposure to waterborne legionella bacteria during…

  • Texas-New Mexico water fight could be impacted by SCOTUS ruling

    Texas-New Mexico water fight could be impacted by SCOTUS ruling

    A U.S. Supreme Court decision on Wednesday in a water fight between Florida and Georgia could have implications for a similar legal battle between Texas and New Mexico over the Rio Grande water supply, legal experts said. Five years ago, Texas sued New Mexico, asserting that New Mexico is in violation of the Rio Grande…

  • Michigan Not Waiting for EPA to Fix Weak Rules on Lead in Drinking Water

    Michigan Not Waiting for EPA to Fix Weak Rules on Lead in Drinking Water

    Michigan could become the first state to get rid of lead pipes for drinking water thanks to new regulations that are stricter than the federal standards for the toxic metal. Gov. Rick Snyder (R) pushed the rewriting of the rules in the wake of the water crisis in Flint, where city residents were exposed to…

  • Local sorority raises $20,000 to help Flint’s water crisis

    A group of women in Flint, Michigan, is stepping up to help those affected [by] the city’s ongoing water crisis, which they say the state has failed to address. As the state’s budget cut funding for bottled water in April — leaving aid for the four-year-old crisis in limbo — the Flint chapter of Alpha…

  • Fraudulence in Flint: How Suspect Science Helped Declare the Water Crisis Over

    Fraudulence in Flint: How Suspect Science Helped Declare the Water Crisis Over

    Downtown Flint, Mich. (U.S. Department of Agriculture) Nakiya Wakes sat across from me in a Flint, Mich., coffee shop on one of those cloudy, dreary days symbolic of the reeling Rust Belt city. It was March 2017, nearly two years after Wakes had the first miscarriage. After losing her first baby, she learned there was…