Michael Moore: 10 Things You Don’t Know About the Flint Water Crisis

“While the Children in Flint Were Given Poisoned Water to Drink, General Motors Was Given a Special Hookup to the Clean Water…” and there’s more than lead in Flint’s water. This is shocking.

dianeravitch's avatarDiane Ravitch's blog

Film maker Michael Moore is a native of Flint, Michigan. He is outraged by what happened to the people of Flint when Governor Snyder’s emergency manager decided to save money by switching Flint’s water supply from a safe source to an unsafe one.

Moore wrote this post to identify 10 things about the crisis that are little known and make you even more outraged.

Here are a few examples:

1. While the Children in Flint Were Given Poisoned Water to Drink, General Motors Was Given a Special Hookup to the Clean Water.

A few months after Gov. Snyder removed Flint from the clean fresh water we had been drinking for decades, the brass from General Motors went to him and complained that the Flint River water was causing their car parts to corrode when being washed on the assembly line. The governor was appalled to hear that GM property was…

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