Detroit Collapsing-Water Supply Is Too Toxic To Drink (Video)

(N.Morgan) Already in the strangling grasp of a collapsing economy and a financial state of emergency, the people of Flint, Michigan, were also deprived of clean water in 2014, when the state decided to switch the city’s water source to the notoriously mucky Flint River in a bid to save money. In the absence of proper treatment, the water eroded the lead service lines and put all residents in danger.

Despite the lead-poisoned locals and children are now forced to deal with the consequences of this reckless act for the rest of their lives, the city and state officials responsible have yet to pay any tangible price for their negligence.

While yet another man-made disaster quietly turns into the past, the nearby rundown areas, like Detroit are now faced with a similar danger. Along with the miserable poverty, bad pipes and neglected water treatment systems the elements combined are dragging Detroit into third-world status.

Was Flint only the beginning?

After nearly two years of drinking toxic water, the people of Flint were finally acknowledged in October 2015. During which time the high levels of lead found in drinking water meant brain damage, learning disabilities and pregnancy issues for the residents.

Children have been permanently hindered in their natural development. Yet it took until January 2016 for the government to mobilize the National Guard and begin distributing bottled water and filters in Flint.

What lesson can be gleaned from this? Wouldn’t the residents of Flint be much healthier today had they listened to their own instincts and stopped drinking tap water when it started smelling funny? Most importantly, has the government taken any action to help prevent this from happening elsewhere in America?

People in Detroit living in third-world conditions

The residents of Detroit are not only on the brink of facing the same disastrous water situation, but it seems that most of them are able to even afford running water to begin with. According to Detroit census records, 60% of households with children under 18 live in poverty.

Of the 200,000 water customers in Detroit, 108,000 are 60 days past due on bills, and their water has consequently been shut off, leading many to collect rainwater for daily use.

The abhorrent truth doesn’t end here. Darrel Earley is the emergency manager who oversaw the switch of Flint’s water source. The same Darrel Earley is now in charge of Detroit’s public schools.

Recently shared photos taken by teachers from Detroit are shocking, to say the least, but speak a thousand words for the current status of the city. Five days a week, children and teachers are faced with black mold, toilet water leaking through the ceiling, mushrooms growing out of the walls and extreme cold.

The video below gives the actual levels of lead found in the water in Detroit.

How Much Lead is in Metro Detroit’s Tap Water?

Elsewhere, in America…

Flint and Detroit are not singular cases in America, where the entire infrastructure is headed for collapse. From 2013 to 2014, city officials in Sacramento, California, were literally experimenting with a cheaper water treatment option on the unknowing residents. The end result? For almost a year, Sacramentans were exposed to toxic chemicals that raised the risk of cancer, miscarriages and birth defects.

Recently, the majority of central Texas found itself on the brink of a similar disaster, when local officials uncovered the fact that their drinking water tested over federal legal limits of radioactive radium, the levels so extreme that the local scrapyard turned down the steel water pipes because they were too radioactive. It seems that the water was so contaminated, that it would result in one additional cancer patient for every 400 people.

Whether in Texas, California or Michigan, the people were the last to know about the health hazards they were exposed to. In light of all these events and possibly many to follow, it is strongly recommended that every citizen should be prepared to filter, purify and store their own water supply.

References:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/11/health/toxic-tap-water-flint-michigan/

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