There isn't a lot to discuss about Flint, Michigan this Friday night.

There was a lot of corruption in the Snyder administration. There is no doubt about that. There is still corruption effecting the decisions about declaring Flint's water safe.

This article tries to set an upbeat idea that because of Flint there are more and better clean water options today. I think it is called food security. Food security includes clean water. Flint is illustrated in this article as a point where clean water was unattainable.

October 3, 2019
By Andrew Rossow

This year’s plate of natural disasters (click here) has been deadly and left the environment in shambles. While individuals are left without homes, food, water, and other vital resources, global warming continues to strike, leaving humans open and vulnerable to poor and even more harmful water conditions.

Over the past decade, 63 million Americans were exposed to potentially unsafe water....

...Its portable water-filtration system uses “reverse-osmosis,” and a filtration system to clean water at the point-of-contact. “Reverse-osmosis” works as water is forced across a semipermeable membrane, leaving contaminants behind, which are then flushed down the drain. The clean drinking water collects in a holding tank. Usually, though, the installation and subsequent maintenance of an RO filter requires a large sum of money and is too cumbersome for a house....

So, natural disasters are proving to bring about methods to have clean water in the face of infrastructure damage or lose

For Flint, the nightmare is sustained for years. There is a growing understanding by the people of Flint that the importance of clean water is replaced by greed from contractors using substandard methods and federal authorities that simply want to wash their hands of it.

September 10, 2019
By Karen Pinchin

More than five years (click here) after the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, began, many residents still don’t know if they can trust the water coming out of their taps....

Andrew Wheeler is not qualified to be EPA Director, but, what the heck, Guiliani was the president's physician for awhile. The fact Wheeler is not qualified can be listed in any lawsuit against the agency, too.

...This past June, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler declared that Flint’s water was “safe to drink.” Last week, an EPA spokesperson reaffirmed that to FRONTLINE, saying that the drinking water “currently meets all health-based standards.”

But Flint’s mayor, Karen Weaver, has dismissed such declarations as “premature.”

“Nobody wants to say that Flint water is safe to drink more than myself and the residents of Flint, but, before we say it, we want to be absolutely sure it is true,” she said in June in response to Wheeler’s comments. A spokesperson for the mayor told FRONTLINE that Weaver stands by her stance.

Though Flint’s water, which once tested dangerously high for lead, is now within federal safety standards, microbiologists, infectious disease experts and officials including Weaver worry that harmful elements may still remain — and that state and federal regulators aren’t actively testing for them....

I still think a citizen council is necessary in Flint, so there is a consistent authority that keeps up with all the issues facing the people and how they are accounted for by the government. The citizen council can find empowerment in fundraising, being a non-profit and seeking their own grants to solve the problems of the people.

A citizen council may prove a good idea in other major cities such as Newark as well. They could have their own lawyers that litigate for them.