A Word: Flint's Decade of Disappointment
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🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. It has been 10 years since Flint, Michigan made headlines |
| 0:07.4 | when its citizens discovered their water was poisoning them. But long after the spotlight faded, |
| 0:12.0 | Flint is still dealing with the consequences of the crisis. |
| 0:15.0 | And millions more Americans are discovering their water is unsafe too. |
| 0:19.0 | Quite frankly, it is an issue everywhere. If it's not lead led it might be the water plant in your |
| 0:23.8 | community is outdated and dilapidated so these are things that if it has not |
| 0:28.3 | hit you yet over the next two decades it most certainly will what we have and haven't learned from 10 years of the Flint water crisis. |
| 0:36.0 | Coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson. |
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