Flint water crisis: news and updates

5 Michigan officials face involuntary manslaughter charges over Flint water contamination

A man died from Flint’s contaminated drinking water. Now five state officials have been charged for his death. 

Flint, Michigan, charged a resident $1,090 for lead-contaminated water

Some 8,000 families risk losing water that is still not safe to drink.

At long last, Flint, Michigan, will get clean drinking water

18,000 homes in Flint, Michigan are getting lead-free pipes.

The Flint water crisis is not over

Obama, Trump, and Cher visited Flint this year. Our pipes still haven’t been fixed.

4 winners and 3 losers from the last-minute compromise to avoid a government shutdown

A look at the people, dead and alive, who came out ahead in a flurry of congressional action.

Congress just reached a last-minute deal to avoid a government shutdown over Flint lead contamination

Some good news for Flint may be much too little, too late from the city’s advocates.

Michigan attorney general sues 2 companies over Flint water crisis: it was a “botched” job

Bill Schuette told reporters, "In Flint, Veolia and LAN were hired to do a job and failed miserably."

Why President Obama just drank the water in Flint

He argued to Flint residents that their kids are going to be OK.

Read the letter an 8-year-old Flint activist sent to persuade Obama to visit her city

"Even just a meeting from you or your wife would really lift people’s spirits."

3 officials are finally facing criminal charges for covering up Flint’s water crisis

The charges were filed today.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is drinking Flint water for 30 days. It’s a stunt.

This is an inexpensive way to fight the serious lead problem in American cities

Many community activists and experts have argued for years that the most effective way to prevent lead poisoning is to target individual homes for the removal of lead hazards.

EPA email: "I'm not so sure Flint is the community we want to go out on a limb for"

They didn't think leaders could be trusted to spend federal money wisely.

Hillary Clinton's big, important promise to end lead poisoning in America, explained

This could be one of the most significant commitments of the campaign.

An Ohio town had lead in its water and didn’t tell residents for months

"You must act quickly to get on top of it," Kasich said. But Ohio's Environmental Protection Agency knew a town's water had lead in it for months before the state took action.

Michigan made sure state employees in Flint had clean water 8 months before everyone else

Flint children never had a fair shot, even before lead poisoning

High child poverty rates have a life-long impact.

Flint's water crisis has still left the city with fewer poisoned children than Detroit

Invisible soil toxins are a huge national problem.

America's lead poisoning problem isn't just in Flint. It’s everywhere.

The available data shows that lead exposure is a pervasive issue in the United States.

Newly released emails show Michigan officials' long indifference to the Flint water crisis

How they referred to residents' concerns about the water's smell, taste, and chemical content: "Political football." "Not a top health concern." "I can't figure out why the state is responsible."

President Obama tells Detroit he's got Flint's back

"I know that if I was a parent up there, I would be beside myself that my kids' health could be at risk."

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder takes responsibility for Flint’s water crisis: “I let you down"

Bernie Sanders had called for Snyder to resign. "Government failed you," the governor told Flint's residents.

I live in Flint. Here’s what the national media got wrong about our water crisis.

Who's really responsible for the dangerously high levels of lead in the water?

Flint, Michigan, tried to save money on water. Now its children have lead poisoning.

The effects of this preventable tragedy will last a lifetime.

It's not just Flint — every major American city has hazardous amounts of lead hurting kids

Decades-old leaded gasoline is still poisoning brains via contaminated soil.