This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. It has been 10 years since Flint, Michigan made headlines

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community is outdated and dilapidated so these are things that if it has not

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.

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