✧ A Road to the Flint, Michigan Water Contamination Crisis - Case Study ✧ - - - ** FULLSCREEN RECOMMENDED - - - ➺ Background Info: This water contamination crisis began in 2014 when the city switched its drinking water supply from Detroit’s system to the Flint River; this terrible decision was cost-saving, but fatal to its residents. The Flint River flows through the town’s center, and it is essentially a waste disposal site for many local industries such as car factories, lumber mills, meat packing facilities, etc. The river got immensely contaminated by the sewage as well. It is rumoured to have caught fire twice! - - - ➺ Instructions: - Click the green flag - Click on each of the icons to learn more about the water contamination crisis - Press space to exit information - - - ➺ Notes & Credits: - Background, thumbnail, police badge, chemical tube & led pipe made on ibis paint x - Project created for a grade 8 science assignment - - -
