U.S. companies donate 6 million bottles of water to MI

Every fundraiser helps provide even more water to Flint residents. Bill Nowling, who resides in Green Oak Township, is the senior partner at the Detroit office for the New York-based public relations firm Finn Partners.

A lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges MI officials failed to deliver safe drinking water to the citizens of Flint in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Previous tests have shown high lead levels in some children after Flint switched from Detroit water to the Flint River in 2014 to save money.

Leyton joins the list of state and federal prosecutors looking into the handling of the city’s drinking water.

And Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, a Democrat from Flint, criticized Schuette for taking months too long to investigate, but said Tuesday that he’ll “give him the benefit of the doubt until I see otherwise”.

Much of the blame for the emergency has been put on the state Department of Environmental Quality because staff told Flint water officials not to treat it for corrosion until after two six-month monitoring periods. “We need those pipes replaced, and not a single pipe has been replaced since they discovered lead in the water”.

“I appreciate the federal government stepping up, but this does not replace the state stepping up and giving the funds for our residents to fix this issue”, Weaver said.

“EPA has determined the State of MI and the City of Flint’s responses to the drinking water crisis in Flint have been inadequate to protect public health, there are serious, ongoing concerns with delays, lack of adequate transparency and capacity to safely manage the drinking water system”, the EPA said in a statement at the time. “The right to have clean, safe, affordable water, food, and energy are among the top demands of protests, regardless of the country”.

Among those appointed to the committee is Virginia Tech University professor Marc Edwards, the researcher who conducted numerous tests on Flint’s water system and was the first to publicly identify high levels of lead.

Governor Rick Snyder has scrubbed plans for an economic development trip to the Middle East, so he can remain in MI to deal with the Flint water crisis. A state plan to save $15 million on Flint’s water bills may now cost $1.5 billion in clean-up, Moore said in his online petition for help from President Barack Obama.

Although Flint returned to Detroit water in October, the lead risk remains because of damage to the water distribution system. The state took over the city’s budget and chose to temporarily switch Flint’s water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to save money. Port Clinton’s water testing schedule follows in-line with Ohio’s Environmental Protection Agency’s monitoring schedule, he said.

A number of major US corporations announced that they will donate millions of bottles of drinking water to a city in the midst of a contaminated water crisis in the U.S.

The challenge: for every $20 you donated to any CrowdRise campaign for the Flint Water Crisis Relief, craigconnects matched the donation with 100 cases of water to be distributed to the residents in Flint by The United Way of Southeastern Michigan.