The city of Flint, Michigan and its residents have been suffering from their own tap water for months. When a resident turns on a water faucet in their home, the water emits a strange smell and the color comes out brown. It turns out that water contains a high amount of iron and lead. What made the tap water contaminated? Why is the city unable to obtain clean tap water despite being under one hundred miles away from the Great Lakes? The city of Flint was originally obtaining clean tap water from Lake Huron. However, due to financial issues, the state of Michigan decided to switch Flint’s tap water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. The Flint River, however, is much more corrosive than Lake Huron, about nineteen times more to be …show more content…
The reason for the river’s corrosiveness is due to the fact that federal law required the river to be treated with an anti-corrosive agent in order to be considered a safe source of drinking water, but the state did not comply with