The guy who leaked the report should get a medal

So in an "emergency", you pay someone to take away basic services. Brilliant.

Remember this the next time you hear someone say that we have too much spending and regulation.

The negligence on the local/state level is borderline criminal.

Citizen - I pay taxes. Can I have clean drinking water? Michigan - hell no!!!

the water was BROWN. how the heck do you call that safe?!

But I thought politicians cared about the people they represent...

I live in Flint and I experienced this first hand. My elderly mother drank the water and my young niece drank the water. We were told that because of the lead levels in her blood, she would now have learning disabilities and a lower IQ among other things. What isn't told in this video is that many residents in flint live in poverty and can't afford to replace filters that go bad after a few months. Even though we are on Detroit water now, lead still seeps from the pipes and gets into the water. It is 2017 now, and all of the cities old pipes still have not been replaced. Flint schools were already some of the worst in the entire state, and now with this problem, children require even more attention then before. This was not the cities' fault at all, our governor pretty much forced the switch just to save a few million dollars. There has been some improvements, but just because the media isn't covering it anymore, doesn't mean the problem is completely gone.

never thought i'd see shit like this in 2016

This is what happens when you put a dollar value on everything. Basic clean drinking water not available in a US city, that's how far we have fallen, this is some 3rd world shit. Shit is crazy.

Wait, so they were just pumping water directly from the river into people's homes?!?!

Remember this video next time the Gov tells you something is safe when it seems it isn't. Scary.

Typical denial that there's a problem. People found lead and they blame the people's plumbing. Well, the mayor should let his children drink the very water to prove it's safe. They should make these rich politicians and their family live where the people live, consume what they consume.

Yet the city sure found money to give themselves raises and hire more cops.

As always, great video. Shame stuff like this happens in the world's "wealthiest" country.

Flints water crisis in 3 minutes? What are you trying to pull Vox. I saw those extra 37 seconds? You won't get past my eagal eye.

Poor children that got the lead poisoning becouse of it,though I can understand they were trying to save up money,this was a realy horrible choice they made.

I watched an in depth documentary on this, and something that shocked me was the exact amount of lead in the water at the Walter's house, also known as "Ground Zero". Safe lead levels is 15 parts per billion (ppb) or below. Above 5,000 ppb is considered hazardous. Ground Zero had over 150,000 ppb of lead in their water. Their children couldn't even bathe in the water without extreme agony and rashes. It's ridiculous

I lived in Flint for a few years and when this came up it didn't change much for me because I already thought the tap water was gross so I was drinking out of bottles for most of my time there.

this is a really great channel. i think most news channels could take notes on how you guys explain things here. going for understanding the situation rather then just telling it.

flint drinking like flintstones

terrible and sad. flint will be totally bankrupt by the time its all said and done and the residents have every right to sue.

why don't the government stop sending hundreds of millions every month to the Middle East,and help its people first.

So a scandal around water, you might call it watergate... oh wait

I'm drinking water while watching this, grateful that I have clear water. My heart goes out to the citizens of Flint. I hope their water becomes clear again.

Don't sue the city. Instead, fix the problem, find out who is accountable. and hold who ever is accountable accountable.

Vox, thank you for making news easy! Keep up the great work! :)

Good video explaining what happened. it's a sad state of affairs and I hope those responsible are held accountable.

I live in Michigan. What a horrible conservative state

It's not just Flint. I live in Frederick County VA and I have thought for a long time that the water was toxic here. The fish in the lake are dying. People have skin/dental issues. No one here drinks tap water. I think the water company and this county has a 'water problem'. I'm not naming them, but I am researching this issue because there is really something wrong with the aqua.

This was a really good video/concept. Please explain more things in 3 minutes.

Thank you for reporting this

Flint, Michigan? Where's Michael Moore when you need him?

august 2018...still no clean water for flint.

Thank you for explaining it so incredibly!!!

This is a very important video report. thank you so much.

Obama's thoughts: "Fuck man.... why now?! Can't it wait after I leave?!!"

You should really do an update. People still have to take 3 minutes shower in flint, they can leave cause no one wants to live there. It's really messed up and no one cares anymore

Great video, as always!

I just want to THANK YOU VOX for filling me in on this subject, I KNEW something was going on in Flint, but didn't have near this amount of information as I do now. Thanks for keeping me informed and making it so dang easy to understand! I bet you probably saved so much money by posting this to youtube instead of on the AIR lol (That's my one lame joke out of this whole thing. :D So yes, I appreciate you!)

Isn't municipal water supposed to be tested before release to the public? It would seem that someone circumvented this basic step. .

Thank you for making this, now I can start my assignment :D

I live in flint. And we are working on fixing it. It is getting better

The crisis is still going on 4 years later

A masterclass in avoiding accountability...will never be explained to the public. Ever.

I went through Flint the other day (I live like 30 minutes away) and at the restaurants there are signs that say Detroit water its really sad the apartments do too.

This video is a year old and this is still going on. Could we get an update video?

Mama said, "Son don’t drink from the river Stay far away from that ol' silent killer If I’m ever not around, this I’m warning you I’ve buried one child, boy, don’t make me bury two" That’s what mama said

Gov. Synder is/was running Michigan like a business. His strategy to save money was to install Emergency Managers in cities that were in bad shape. So, he used a top down (corporate) approach in Flint to balance the budget. Turns out the EM had to only report to Gov. Synder -- devoid of the people of Flint, the mayor, and the city council. This is a prime example of what happens when people elect a business model into the governorship. You get people who will undermine the people of cities in whichever way possible to save money. They are just being good capitalists, by the way. The social costs are what we are currently seeing. Capitalism has an instinctual resistance towards social ails as Capitalism only cares about making/saving as much money as possible. People in Michigan got what they voted for (or because they didn't come out to vote).

I have lived in Michigan all my life and have always had water from Detroit. Then I moved to northern Oakland County and the wells are just the same as flint water. It’s orange/brown water. I’ve been drinking only water bottles for over 5 years. My hair turned orange (it was blonde before).

This brakes my heart everytime I hear about it

FLINT STILL DOES NOT HAVE CLEAN WATER! 2/9/2017

0:51 yeah, and ice cream causes violence.

More of these!!!

The lead did come from the pipes, lead wielding was under a layer of non-lead stuff. The new water corroded the layer down to the lead and lead went in

Till this day I cant understand why anyone would think using the Flint River was okay. Just walking downtown you smell the river. I mean we all have jokes about how nasty it is. It's brown smelly water.

WHAT happened to the 100 Million in taxpayers money that President Trump sent to Flint City leaders to repair the situation there when he office?? The PROBLEM IS that the voters never hold the LOCAL POLITICIANS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THESE SERVICES RESPONSIBLE. And they don't pay attention to local elections either.

The water from the flint river isn’t a problem. It is the fact that they failed to add corrosion control agents to the water that poisoned the people of flint. Without the corrosion control agents, the scale in the lead supply pipes going to homes dissolved into the water, which is the only thing preventing lead from entering the water. Switching back to Detroit’s will help, but it will take time for the scale to grow back...

as someone from north Michigan I'm glad I have well water...

Who’s here after the former Governor of Michigan was charged?

I live in Michigan, and we’ve had to pay a lot for Flint’s damn crisis.

When the water supply was switched. Who was the person who tested the water after it was " treated " and said " Everything AOK " ? How could something like this happen ?

I live in Detroit and I feel sorry for them because theyre so close

Good thing I live in Australia.

I refuse to believe that this is the world's wealthiest and developed country.

best channel

Quick question since I'm not from the states. Is piped water usually declared as drinkable water? Because this is the case in Germany and other countries but I've always thought piped water in the US is in general not drinkable.

Wow, not explained at all...too bad, because it's interesting. At least we have Wikipedia

thanks to the doctor from Virginia and his staff for proving the high toxicity of the river water and all these people and children suffer. Great job to the people on the board to cut costs at the expense of brain damage.

I live next to flint and around that time flint's whole area was in ruins

I love really close and all of this was true. Thank you for telling people about this!

Greatest country on Earth people, greatest country on Earth. NAWT!!

0:21 lol there's a pitcher of clean water in the background

In our country we have states like Punjab , Chhattisgarh have decades of lead , fluoride water poisoning not a single media outlet has highlighted this and contaminated water is a norm every year during the monsoon

I blame Obama

You drink tap water in America??

The maintenance staff struck a gas line by our school while replacing water pipes. Twice.

I live in Davison (near flint) and when this all started my school started a thing where anyone can donate bottled water

Good Ol' Capitalism

here's a true WATERGATE!!!!!!!!!!!!! , made by govenor Snyder

Are they still trying to fix this? I heard about, but never knew if the solved it.

Is it clean now since their back to using Detroit's?

The city of Flint are DEMOCRATS! DON'T FORGET THAT!

haha america has the worst water go to scandinavia and get clean tap water for free

Please do a video on the Porter Ranch, CA, methane leak.

And it’s still not fixed

The sad thing is this is every single day on many Canadian reserves.

You never could swim in the flint river when my mom was a kid they said in the summer the water smelled of cleaning products and paint

Just to let you guys know, as of July 5, 2017, Flint *still* does not have safe water.

Am i correct in remembering lead can cause mental health issues as they used to have lead water pipes found it caused damage including psychological damage then changed to coper?

And the Moral of this lesson is have Foresight and understand what's up ahead if not you are going to be screwed.

Anyone come here after seeing the large amount of water bottles in an abandoned school short?

Medal of Honor should be awarded to not only soldiers but people that leak the truth to the people

Will they have to replace all the corroded pipes? Have they been drinking just bottled water?

A man from Hamilton flints sister city sent a ton of clean water a few years back

So they're suing the city that poisoned them because it couldn't afford to provide clean water. That doesn't sound like it's helping the problem...

Hi hello, yeah uh. I LIVE in Michigan in fact, right next to Flint and the water is still not clean

It sounds like switching the water supply isn't the only problem. Those pipes need to be completely replaced.

2:07 I love how they put his name in quotes like that’s not his real name

at my school, the water had lead in it and we couldn't drink from the water fountains so they bought tons of water bottles and gave them to each classroom now we can frink form the water fountains but that was for 2 years