State gave it’s own workers in Flint pure water coolers

As Flint residents anxious about the safety of their water, MI officials with the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget provided bottled water to employees working in a state building there in January of 2015, almost a full year before the state made clean drinking water available to residents.

The Michigan Legislature on Thursday extended the state emergency declaration in the city of Flint and Genesee County until April 14. It also notes that because of the violations, the department would start dolling out water bottles to every government employee in state buildings. The state continued to provide the coolers of purified water, right up to today, because “there were more findings as we went along”, Buhs said.

Flint residents are now unable to drink unfiltered tap water, and tests have shown high lead levels in some children’s blood.

ATTN: reached out to officials handling the water crisis, and will update accordingly. He wants the removal and arrest of Governor Snyder, and notes that the state of MI should be made to pay for the disaster it created using its $600 million rainy day fund and $600 million surplus. Another state spokesman said earlier it was provided continuously in the building.

“But I always remind myself, I always try to think about the person in Flint that can’t use the water coming out of the tap and what their life’s like and how they’re in a worse place than I am”, he said.

In a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy on Friday, Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, cited a Detroit News article for raising “serious questions about the Environmental Protection Agency’s performance with respect to alerting the public about a health crisis related to the Flint, Michigan water supply”. The more corrosive water from the Flint River caused the city’s water pipes to leach lead into the drinking water.

Thanks to the work of Rick Snyder and his team of little dictators – aka “Emergency Managers” – the people of Flint have been drinking and bathing in contaminated water for more than a year.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Scrambling to respond to the lead poisoning in the Flint, Michigan, water supply, the two Democratic senators from that state unveiled a $600 million proposal to help replace contaminated pipes and treat residents who were exposed to the risky element.

It’s the second round of state aid for the city since the crisis was confirmed in the fall, bringing the total allocated to almost $39 million. There also is funding to hire outside experts to assess whether Flint’s water system infrastructure must be replaced or repaired.

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, said the blame for the lead exposure belongs squarely with the Michigan state government, which is headed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. However, there are still up to 25,000 service lines containing lead that run between water mains and homes in Flint.