Contaminated Water News: Flint Residents Were Poisoned. Now, They're Being Billed For It
Photo by DANIEL DALE / Toronto Star
Summary:
Flint is invoicing people for lead-contaminated water. Says one: “We just don’t want to pay to have ourselves killed.”
Article:
FLINT, MICH.—A day off in Flint. William Miller got his hair cut and his van fixed up. Then he needed something to drink, so he did what people here do, still, three years into this fiasco.
He drove to the parking lot beside the boarded-up bowling alley that says “ESTAURANT” on the side. He stopped at the four stop signs. He gave his address and his order to a woman holding a clipboard and wearing a fluorescent yellow vest.
“Twelve!” LaKrisha Shumon shouted ahead, and Miller, a 49-year-old surgical assistant who also owns a medical transport business, crept forward so that the men in vests could load the van with 12 free cases of Walmart’s Great Value Purified Drinking Water.
He comes every week. His anger has not subsided.
“It’s disgusting,” Miller, a trim man with a goatee and a grey college sweatshirt, said in an interview out his car window. “I should not have to do this. I’m a middle-class person. This is not the way life is supposed to be in this country. It’s morally reprehensible.”
He could, in theory, just turn on his tap. Eight months after Republican Gov. Rick Snyder belatedly acknowledged a problem with Flint’s water, Snyder officials told residents in June that their water was safe to drink with a filter.
Not happening.
Article by Daniel Dale
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