flint water crisis Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:35:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Elon Musk Commits to Solve the Flint Water Crisis https://www.greenoptimistic.com/elon-musk-flint-water-crisis-20180713/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/elon-musk-flint-water-crisis-20180713/#respond Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:35:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=65918 It was 2014 when the Flint water crisis started. It was caused by changing the source of drinking water from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the much cheaper Flint River. After that, because of insufficient water treatment, lead leached from the pipes into the drinking water, exposing 100,000 residents. It caused 12 deaths […]

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