Contributions from your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome flints most famous doctor this program. She has become one of the most courageous voices in that citys water crisis, sounding the alarm on a poisonous supply that contained led, e. Coli and possibly legion nars disease. Great to be with you. Three years later, these criminal cases are just starting to get underway. Let me start by asking whether or not three years later you think what happened in your city was in fact criminal. Yeah, absolutely criminal. One of the greatest environmental crimes of our century and we have been using the past tense, three years ago, but we are very much still in the middle of this crisis. To this day, the people of fingerprint cannot drink unfilters water. So we are still in the middle of this crime. What is your sense of what are they saying at least the end game is here . How much longer will residents three, four years later still be forced to drink bottled water
Contributions from your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome flints most famous doctor this program. She has become one of the most courageous voices in that citys water crisis, sounding the alarm on a poisonous supply that contained led, e. Coli and possibly legion nars disease. Great to be with you. Three years later, these criminal cases are just starting to get underway. Let me start by asking whether or not three years later you think what happened in your city was in fact criminal. Yeah, absolutely criminal. One of the greatest environmental crimes of our century and we have been using the past tense, three years ago, but we are very much still in the middle of this crisis. To this day, the people of fingerprint cannot drink unfilters water. So we are still in the middle of this crime. What is your sense of what are they saying at least the end game is here . How much longer will residents three, four years later still be forced to drink bottled water
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Ten years ago, Flint, Mich., switched water sources to the Flint River. The lack of corrosion control in the pipes caused lead to leach into the water supply of tens of thousands of residents.