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Flint, Michigan water contamination: Obama declares emergency


US President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency in Flint, Michigan, where the water has become contaminated with lead.

The city's water became contaminated after a change in supplier in 2014. Corrosive water leached lead from old pipes into the water supply.

The emergency declaration will unlock $5m (£3.5m) in federal funding.

Earlier in the week, Governor Rick Snyder had requested $31m from the federal government ...



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35336617


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Jake May/The Flint Journal - MLive.com via AP
Image captionFilm-maker Michael Moore, who is from Flint, attended a rally in the city on Saturday


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Hillary is absolutely right, America should be outraged at the genocide, Governor.


Video: Gov. Snyder: Clinton politicizing Flint's water crisis


... During Sunday's debate, Clinton said "every single American should be outraged" by the water crisis, adding that "if the kids in a rich suburb of Detroit had been drinking contaminated water and being bathed in it, there would have been action."

Following a speaking engagement at a Martin Luther King Day event in Flint, the Republican governor said her tactic doesn't help solve the problem ...


http://news.yahoo.com/photos/water-...arries-free-water-filter-photo-191751999.html


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Flint resident Charles Chatmon carries a free water filter and case of water away from a Flint fire station on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 in Flint. Safe drinking water has not flowed from many Flint faucets for almost two years after the state-run city switched its source to the highly corrosive Flint River and failed to treat it properly to protect lead from leaching into it. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

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Michael Moore Just Nailed What No One Is Willing to Say About Flint's Water Crisis


Michael Moore is known for tackling tough subjects, which is especially true when it comes to his hometown of Flint, Michigan. Now, in the midst of a declared state of emergency over the city's man-made water crisis, the award-winning filmmaker is calling out what few others have: that the catastrophe has everything to do with race ...


http://news.yahoo.com/michael-moore-just-nailed-no-173900965.html

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