Flint Water Crisis

Who is to blame for allowing this crisis to reach this point? How should they be held responsible? Government officials are responsible for allowing the Flint water crisis to reach this detrimental point. According to the PBS news station, for one and a half years, people were drinking water contaminated with lead, yet government officials claimed that everything was fine. In this scenario, the public have no clue that their water, which they drink, bathe in, wash clothes and dishes in, and water their garden with, is toxic. They don’t know that this water can have several, very serious impacts on their and their children’s health, such as, learning disabilities, slow growth, insomnia, memory loss, and liver and kidney problems. These government officials should be held responsible. They should be the ones who reverse the problem they created. This crisis all started when the city government of Flint, Michigan, decided to switch water sources in an effort to save money. They
A problem like this, that is so widespread and detrimental to the public’s health, needs to be brought out into the open. Next, they can switch the city’s water source to a safe reliable source. Water is a necessity for all life, and the people of Flint cannot continue to live off of bottled water. There needs to be a permanent solution to this problem. The last thing I believe government officials can do to reverse this crisis is to offer free healthcare to the people of Flint, Michigan. Lead poisoning can have detrimental effects on the body. Fixing or caring for these problems would be costly for a majority of the public, since the city of Flint has poverty issues. The government can pay for the people’s healthcare, if they needed it because of lead poisoning effects. The citizens of Flint should not suffer any longer than they have been, as a result of the government’s