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| Mcability "Water Glass" 03/20/14 via Pixabay CC0 Public Domain |
The
current water crisis in Flint, Michigan all initiated about two years back. Let’s
fly back to April 25, 2014. The weather in Flint was somewhat warmer than at
the beginning of the year (yet, being a city in Michigan it was probably still
cooler than say here in Arizona during April). Flint around this time had been
going through some financial issues and as part of one of the ways to solve
some of their financial troubles, officials in charge of Flint decided to stop
buying water from Detroit because piping water from there to Flint costs a
pretty penny. The officials switched to the Flint River as the primary source
of water for the next couple of months until they could build a pipe of sorts
to a much more reliable source of water (preferably a lake since lake water is less
salty than river water).
So, back to April 25th. On this day, the
mayor of Flint of the time officially announced the switch of the water source
of the city of Flint, shut down the pipeline which was connected to Detroit’s
water source, and turned on the pipeline connected to the Flint River. All the
officials present with the mayor celebrated by drinking a fresh, uncontaminated
glass of treated Flint River water……or so they thought it was uncontaminated
until later on in the coming months.
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