The Flint Switch

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On April 25th, 2014 a change was made that would cheat a whole community out of a basic human right. The right to drink clean, safe water. This is the story of what happens when the people in charge, go from minding the bottom line. To becoming obsessed with it. A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When Melissa Maze was growing up, there was some stuff you just didn't do.
0:11.3	I'm originally from the South, so we had well water and you know you didn't drink that.
0:15.9	In 2009, Melissa, her husband and her three kids moved to a city in Michigan.
0:20.6	So when we moved, we had city water and I'm like, oh my goodness, this is amazing.
0:26.1	We had fresh, clean H2O flowing directly into her taps.
0:31.2	Melissa couldn't believe it.
0:32.8	She started using this water for everything.
0:34.9	We had a pool for the kids out in the side yard.
0:37.6	We bathed our pets.
0:39.0	We also had awesome landscaping going.
0:41.8	We didn't think, you know, there would ever be a problem.
0:47.2	But in the summer of 2014, when Melissa would turn on her taps, her garden hose or her shower,
0:53.4	she started to notice something different.
0:56.8	Some days it would smell like steep, some days it would smell like dirt, and then other
1:00.0	days it would smell like like straight river.
1:03.5	These smells were telling her that something was off.
1:06.6	But it wasn't until crazy things started happening that she really began to get worried.
1:12.5	My sons would have rashes on their back and then my hair started falling out and handfuls.
1:16.7	I'm like, well, you know I'm stressed out.
1:20.0	It would be months before Melissa discovered the reason why these things were happening
1:23.6	to her and her family, that some people were hiding a secret that would ultimately change
1:28.7	her life forever.
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