The more they turn a blind eye the more it will cost in the future. Stop giving big corporations billions in tax incentives/subsidies. There's communities that need it more.

Unbelievable that this is still happening in America. Money cannot continue to be more important than people.

As someone from the Netherlands, this just sounds like gross dereliction of duty of the politicians who are supposedly controlling the budgeting of the water supply. Water is a basic human need, this quality is just unacceptable. Fearing the quality of my tap water is almost anathema to myself as I can always rely on my tapwater to be perfectly drinkable. My country is absolutely irrelevant on a global scale. It is for that reason that it astounds me that the US, for all its power and might, seems to be incapable of giving its own citizens this basic human requirement.

Need Erin Brockovich

NEVER DRINK TAP WATER! If you must, boil it first. Don't believe me? Have it tested.

Great reporting from cnns investigative journalists.

And this is supposed to be the greatest country in the world when third world people have cleaner water

They must expose the corporate polluters and invest in water management.

Who do you call to have your water tested?

*_Is a city letter stating undrinkable levels of ARSENIC & RADON good enough for the GOVT, state, Cty, City etc TO BE RESPONSIBLE for changing water infrastructure?!_* That’s what’s happening up here in the Northern Midwest states of America as well (pun intended). So... how do we get ahold of this Mark guy & y’all??? *This is getting ridiculous* 😠

Jordan chariton on his channel status coup, which he shared with Jimmy Dore, has done an excellent job covering this crisis knocking on 400 houses in Michigan.

I'm sure the tax cut to the rich would have paid for fixing the ageing infrastructure but CEOs needed them bonuses.

I am lost for words!

The water used to be really good where i live but a few years ago it started to have this disgusting taste and we have been buying bottled water ever since.

Testing a house with lead soldered copper pipes doesn’t tell that theirs lead in the water of the city water system. It just tells you that there is lead soldering in the piping of the house!!!

Oh WOW!

21:31 this guy's excuses lag more than my wi-fi

I pray someone from Marietta Power & WATER is watching...This is Your Heads Up!!

amazing!

bacterial meningitis? holy fuck that is so scary

Pay taxes for dirty water In Florida you should live for free no Fed tax

I live in Abbeville,La on the river and have seen the water turn Neon green. The tap water reeks of of chemicals. I have been experiencing nausea and skin irritation for the last two years; especially since the flood. I buy bottled water but still have to bath in it. Where do you get tests that are affordable?

It's a shame that we still have water bills for this nasty water. SMDH

13:10 What does a wobbly faucet have to do with the quality of the water?

this kind of story Don Lemonhead need to cover. Real stories affecting real Americans

Really helped me with my school project!! Thank you so much!! Also please ignore the channel that I am commenting this from- its a cringy channel I made in 7th grade

If America is getting 150 billion from saudi use that money to fix these water issues, use the "blood money" for something good & healing!

Why can’t we as a people work all together in those communities pick up a shovel, dig up all the water pipes from the water treatment facility too all the homes affected with this problem. Then install new pipes. It might take a long time but when it’s all done it would be worth it. How do you think City infrastructures where built in the Middle Ages, with a shovel and many humans working together. There was no electricity or large energy powered mechanical trucks back then. We can do anything as a people if we where to put are minds & body’s together and get things done instead of keep blaming someone else. Especially at the “Breaking Point” when it effects us humans too live.

That's why the water in my bathroom sinks smells like sewer water at times. Edit: The fact that I have to pay for my water bill I expect cleaner water not buy a thousand dollar purifier to get clean water from water that I already am paying for.

Trump said we need to fund the military with millions of dollars but can’t fix our water issue?

Documentary is spelled wrong.

I just heard Trump say we have the cleanest air and water this can't be .

My tap is dangerous :) Mind if I "Tap" dat?

im suspect of our water in detroit too!

I have to right an essay on this plz help me

So sad

who the hell is drinking sink water now in 2018. Whatever happened to the Dakota pipe line?

Don't pay

And this is supposed to be the 20 th century..smh...🤔

Catch my ass out there catching rain water and boiling it🤣

Why don't the flint Michigan people collect the snow fall and store it in water tank. They can collect it during winter and store it for the whole year, or is the snow also too polluted too ?

Gov made a lot of $ from the process the people went through too.

South Carolina !

my water ain't that damn dirty

Damn, no jobs, now no water.

Most people in Louisiana buy bottled water. It's common knowledge you shouldn't drink it

What are we going to do????

Please upload more of these mini documentaries to youtube.

They talk about fixing the problem but offer no solutions . Your water has rust in it cause pipes are made of cast iron/ductile iron . Your talking about reinventing a whole industry . Any new elements/materials out there that that pipes can be made of . Oh wait plastic hdpe but I’m sure that’s unsafe to .

America approximately 323million people 800billion military budget millions of dollars to NASA,millions to fight war aboard but don't even have a proper water system for there own country

Clean water is a basic human right 😕

26:05 after his laugh he looks like he hates him

Great investigative piece. Unfortunately, I was highly distracted by the gorgeous reporter... oye!

POV: your teacher made you watch this

We have been dealing with contaminated water for 29 years, after a lot of research and development we have finally come up with the publics solution for water filtration and the removal of all the chemicals and heavy metals in the water, The Alkaline H2o Pro by USA Water Quality is the answer to the publics concern . It is a tragedy to see how some people have to deal with contaminated water.

CNN keeps us woke 💙

Are there no filters they can use.

Thank your local and state elected officials. Or take them to court.

2009???? Oh my God 😟😟

OMG! It's like a third world country. Disgraceful. This is a basic human right.

H.Pylori....that equals ulcers

Water has been fucked for 5 years now. Wtf

Why doesn’t me beast help. Not kidding

Poor people. That's appalling. I feel sorry for them.

Its not usual for CNN to cover or report such topic's.????

EPA works for Corporations not the people.

we need to change...

These people finna turn into pennies & pencils

welcome in corporatocracy

Let’s build a wall!!!!!!!!! Yeah how about you help these places first please

Shameful

So vote in a city hall that is going to do something about it, then county, then state, and if you get Federal everyone between you and Congress failed you. Vote them out.

Better late than never CNN , others have been covering this for years.

"Don't drink it, don't give it to your chillren", I think that water 💦 is making them a bit more Stoopid.

It seems like instead "revitalizing" cities and so forth money could be used differently.

Instead of having money going towards that stupid board wall why don’t we use all that money for small towns to give them back on their feet

Drinking water in NY right now as we speak feel kind of weird now

Andrew Yang brought me here! God DAmn it ! I thought that we are living in USA!(the greatest nation)

When a town officials and state government refuse to correct the problem this is when the residents have the right to take control and act on behalf of all the people of the community. This was painful to watch the pointless merry go round of testing. 1.2 million should have been used to implement the new filtration system or area wells. NOT more testing. The mayor needs to be fired.

Much needed video,... On a liter note: The chick he brought with him had cakes.

It's all about the money. Don't ever forget that.

People, you can't rely on the system as it is set up to care about your health, you have to be the one on top of your better being and do what it takes to insure that.

This is why you buy a PUR filter it removes 99.99% of lead, rust, pesticides, and medications. I been drinking filtered water since 2011. I knew something was not right with these old pipes. No issues so far.

Let Mike Pence Taste This Water Before Dump 45 🤔

Nice suits on the govs we all bought.

Sick

We DO have world class drinking water regulations, but regulations without compliance or enforcement, regulations are just hot air, not worth the ink & paper they are written on.

Cnn coming through with the hottie "journalist".

I haven't been able to drink our water in 20yrs. Either smells like dirt or bleach. And was brown and muddy turned all our whites dingy. But the City clerk said it was safe to drink. 🤢

Democratic and republican the leaders and the coorperates must come to gether, the corperates have bilions and trillians of dollars, it is a peanut to achieve a clean water infrastructures, it does cost lot of dollars of course but it is possible, also when the water is clean that should be the new standard, and well laws should protect the infrastructure and enviorment from companies like exxson and BASF that do want to flush chemicals in a cheap way into the water system. Flusing is only allowed if they process it correctly. It is called a water system. America does not have any norms and values, or laws to protect the standard. Even the democrats are hor hor and horripic, you may live 100 years maybe like this and then you have no workers that are healty enough to work for the very very ritch Amazons. I hear the workers have 2 or 3 jobs in a full week to be able to pay all bills. In other words, go to Canada and let the Mexican work for the ritch families. The kapitalism has gained so much of billions and trillians of dollars, the system will not change, a multi party system would help and cleanup of the current senators, there is too much influence and hired people working as respresentative of the folks and too many hired ritch sentors working in the goverment, or say it clear to the people goverment is only for law and forcement jobs, and not for infrastructure or clean water or affortable living. goverment is for jobs at the military which are send by the coorperates.

Welcome to America

This is so sad. In a country with So many trillions of government tax money... basic rights are not even given... no clean Water no health care and every town is left to it's own without any government help or fines when they don't meat the standards... I'm from the Netherlands where the water quality is amazing imho, (it dienst beat the well watering the hills of Austria where my grandfather's aunt moved to ) But it's stable, state great, and pure and stable enough I can fill my fish tanks and water my orchids with water with. next to no chlorine residue with a ph of 7.5 and compared to the rrilionndoler needed to replace all pipes pay a A small tax for that.. 18 euro per month to be precise. Everybody payes per units of people living in the house contaminating the waste water × the water used per year. To pay for cleaning the waste water that Goes into the sewidge systems wich gets filtered then goes trough basins of biofilters with bacteria cleaning the water it then gets sanitized fuether to regulated norms before getting pumped into rivers lakes and canals until it's naturally filtered back down into the groundwater. Wich then gets pumped up As close as possible to the distribution centre of that area and filtered and sanitized to drinking water standards. wich is done by a diff company. But both work under strict government oversight. It's a but more complex but it's late and I just wanted to say... Darn that's so sad that a country with So much technology progress and money the well bieng of it's citizens isn't priority nr 1. Without healty people with good educations how is America going to flourish to higher living standards, better economic growth. Make America great starts with safe healty happy educated people. And from what I am seeing in the news half of the population isn't safe mass shootings in schools and other places, cop killing black citizens , kkk white suroemacy, milions of rape and assault victems, many don't have safe drinking water like a third world country wages that keep people in poverty with 40 to 60.your work weeks..no healthcare how are people to flourish to be better to aim high when basic rights aren't even given. I don't get why not everybody is outraged and votes for reform...

I'm not liking this because it is a good thing I'm liking this because I've never heard of this happening elsewhere and I'm annoyed

John Cena's voice 0:45

We need new representation in this country.

One of the reasons I cackle when I here someone boom America is the greatest nation on earth..... yeah if your rich and live within 100 miles of ether cost. the further away you get the more like a 3rd world country it becomes, often been even worse then these quickly developing countries.

Trump don't care y'all.

Give Trump some water.. let him take a sip or two then tell him it’s from Denmark USA I wonder how fast he will freak out!!!

Have your own well drilled on your property.

Michael Moore is not impressed with President Barack Obama's visit to Flint today. Moore, the 62-year-old Flint native and documentary filmmaker, joined CNN earlier this afternoon to discuss Obama's pledge to Flint -- saying "I've got your back" while drinking a glass of filtered Flint water -- and why he's upset with that message. "He is just trying to reassure people that everything's okay," Moore said. "To drink from a glass of Flint water when a number of experts are still saying this water's not safe? It's still going through the same corroded lead pipes? It was such a disappointing thing to see. CNN Politics ✔ @CNNPolitics Michael Moore calls Obama's #Flint visit "such a disappointing thing to see" cnn.it/1WJf42w 136 1:52 PM - May 4, 2016 160 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy "Your clip you just showed about he hopes that Flint can get back to where it was. Where was that? You mean before the water crisis two years ago, after we'd lost 75,000 General Motors jobs? Back to then? Or are we talking about back to 20-30 years ago? I mean, Flint is a city that's really been destroyed." OBAMA VISITS FLINT White House explains Obama's remarks on lead exposure Rick Snyder says Obama drinking Flint water will help rebuild trust Obama and Snyder to Flint: Drink filtered water and be patient President Obama to Flint residents: 'I've got your back' Michael Moore calls Barack Obama drinking Flint water 'disappointing' Flint residents boo, heckle Gov. Rick Snyder at Obama event Obama drinks Flint water, vouches for safety Obama to Flint: 'I've got your back,' drinks the water Follow live: Obama to visit Flint today amid calls for swifter action Boy on Time cover to watch Obama speak in Flint Snyder says he wants to meet with Obama in Flint Wednesday Watch 8-year-old Flint girl read her invitation to Obama Obama to visit Flint after 8-year-old girl asks to meet him More Flint water crisis coverage The lost General Motors jobs Moore referred to were the subject of his 1989 breakout documentary film, "Roger & Me." On April 27, Moore posted on Facebook in regards to Obama's visit to Flint, "I'm sorry to tell you your visit is too little too late" Today was Obama's first visit to Flint since the water crisis began two years ago, contaminating drinking water throughout the city and exposing residents to a number of dangerous health risks. Obama visited with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, held briefings with officials and met with Flint children. During the visit, he drank from a glass of what he said was filtered Flint water at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan, vouching for the safety of certified filters and letting Flint residents know the water is "drinkable" with a filter (though he cautioned pregnant women and children under 6 to continue drinking bottled water "out of an abundance of caution"). Contact Brian Manzullo: bmanzullo@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @BrianManzullo. CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENT EMAIL MORE Share your feedback to help improve our site experience! BARACK OBAMA Lions should have kept Jim Caldwell Free Press readers Obama: Not voting 'dangerous and profound' Kathleen Gray and Lori Higgins Parking in Detroit tonight could be a nightmare Fiona Kelliher Expect tight security at Detroit Obama rally Paul Egan Riley: This is your mightiest superpower Rochelle Riley Obama to rally for Dems at Cass Tech on Friday Kathleen Gray Baby Has Never Eaten Sugar Or Carbs, Wait Till You See Her Today Hooch I Tried HelloFresh: Here's Why I'm Never Going Back Popdust for HelloFresh Former NFL Star Troy Aikman Lives With His Partner in This Gorgeous Mansion Finance Nancy 5 Luxury Cars So Amazing You Won't Believe They Cost Under $50k Stuff Answered More Parents Are Now Gluing Pennies To The Bottoms of Their Kids Shoes Fallbrook247 Look At Terry Bradshaw's Annual Salary Greeningz Sponsored Links AD CONTENT Western Star Robert Conrad Is 83 & Looks Unrecognizable WeightLossGroove Sponsored Links