Based on original reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an industry veteran, the first book for young adults about the Flint water crisis In 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motors.
Poisoned Water shows not just how the crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that fueled it, and how the people of Flint fought-and are still fighting-for clean water and healthy lives..
Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveals the true story of Flint.
Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and news accounts, journalist Candy J.
They treated the people of Flint as the problem, not the water, which was actually poisoning thousands.
Despite what seemed so apparent from the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city\'s faucets, officials refused to listen.
Citizens of Flint protested that the water was dangerous.
Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died.
Then it got worse: children stopped growing.
Within months, many residents broke out in rashes.
As part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River.
Based on original reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an industry veteran, the first book for young adults about the Flint water crisis In 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motors
