Please don't stop talking about this until ALL of Flint has safe water!

As a Flint resident, this crime must never be forgotten. Meanwhile we are still paying top-shelf prices for public water we do not trust enough to drink.

My heart breaks for these kids. I can't believe this is still an issue that hasn't been solved.

Shout out to that doctor. Absolute hero.

This is so heartbreaking and disgusting, it makes me sick

Elect politicians who understand the importance off maintaining infrastructure. Lead water pipes should have been replaced decades ago.

Literally poisoned right here in America, the wealthiest country on the planet, all to save a couple of bucks.

Those "officials" should be forced to drink 50 gallons of the "safe" water, if they're so certain.

This female Pediatrician in Flint Michigan should be given the Nobel Peace prize for her extensive work on this avoidable tragedy & the exposure of the politicians behind it!!!

This isn’t just lead at this point and not just flint. So many waterways in Michigan have been polluted. We haven’t been able to eat fish on a major lake and river for years now.

Everyone who said is ok to drink the water , give them a bottle of water for them to drink right in front of the citizen and cameras .

They ended up spending hundreds of millions of dollars anyway to replace the pipes. You can't cut corners when it comes to infrastructure. It just costs you more in the end and people's lives.

I went to Flint A year ago and it was a ghost town and the locals acted almost defeated like they didnt expect help to come.

Well done DR. Glad someone's on the people side.

Im so sorry for the people of Flint and would not trust the water either.

It’s frustrating as an American to hear that there are people in my own country who don’t have access to clean drinking water. It’s frustrating that the Government doesn’t even care. It’s even more frustrating that more people aren’t outraged by this, and still put high hopes in the morality of politicians. I’m proud that so many Flint residents are leading the charge in keeping their community in tact. I wish more communities could have relationships like Flint. They seem very tight knit.

Here in Buffalo NY, we often talk about your issues in Flint. Its absolutely disgusting what happened to you people. Your local government needs to be held accountable for the suffering, maybe even a localized stimulus, or tax breaks... something..

This is so depressing i see why some people stay away from politics and current events. People are so incredibly selfish its insane.

How many other cities have problems like this right now, that haven't yet been discovered?

Truly heartbreaking. Really makes you think about the water that you drink every day.

Absolutely shameful. I feel for those kids and families.

"You may remember?" Most of this wasnt news, its been a thing for years...

Speaking as someone living in Flint myself? Yes, this is still going on, but in ways you won't expect, and in some ways it's actually gotten worse. Them saying that the water is safe actually IS NOT a total lie - some places in Flint does have safe drinking water again after the pipes have been replaced. Thing is it's not exactly the residential areas - it's places like downtown around the University of Michigan and some of our medical facilities. A couple bars and restaurants in Flint are able to just use water straight from the tap and it's got no impurities. The damage has been done though, because said bars and restaurants I mentioned, even after having confirmed that the water is safe, still use filters for their water on the off-chance there's something in the water that isn't being detected such as Legionnaires. Fact of the matter is, this current generation of people - from the older people to the younger ones - will probably never trust our water again. Even some of us that moved away from Flint to somewhere that certainly does have safe drinking water doesn't trust the water and will still get water from jugs and bottles; we've seen people deteriorate because of the water in the end, it doesn't just affect health and IQ levels it also caused mental illnesses such as Bipolar Disorder to get markedly worse, sometimes irreversibly worse. What this news bit doesn't touch on though? Covid. Covid made getting water a lot more difficult in some cases - not everyone has the luxury of going to water pickup sites for free water for one reason or another, so a lot of families went to places like Walmart or Krogers or similar places that actually have little stations that let you refill gallon jugs of water for just pennies, and even those that had the water pickup sites you were looking at a lot of people coming through an area. While A LOT of us in Flint are extremely respectful of each other - to the point that we didn't argue at all about wearing masks when it was first brought up and protests did not happen here outside of street graffiti due to not wanting to disrupt others' lives - a good chunk of us also aren't in good health thanks to the Water crisis. The direct result? It became too risky to go out and get water like we used to. Those water stations I mentioned? A good chunk of them got shut down due to risk of contamination. And water delivery is... limited. I'm not sure how other families handled it overall, but my own family ended up paying more to get fresh jugs rather than refills, and then those new jugs sat on shelves for a few days after being thoroughly disinfected to make sure they didn't have the virus on them, sometimes longer (for clarification as to why - both parents are immunocompromised, elderly, with bad lungs, top of the list of at risk), and we were having money issues as is. The water crisis is still going on. And it's gonna keep going on for a long while for a lot reasons, even long after all the pipes are replaced.

Those officials who hid facts must be un prison

I was living in Michigan when this crisis started. In northern Michigan the tap water comes from ground water, and lake water. It's so clean that Ice Mountain bottled water is Michigan tap water. I'm not surprised that nothing has changed as Michigan is completely bankrupt and very corrupt. And has been for decades. I hope and pray that things get better. Thank you.

Racism is at the heart of this many other issues that plague this country. God Bless Dr Mona, Sandra Jones and R.L. Jones Community Outreach Center for great work in community by educating the community about the dangers of the drinking water in Flint Michigan and for giving out safe drinking water.

I literally cried while holding my son, why do people do this to my people this is just disgusting. Those poor babies 🥺

It is beyond disgusting that these criminals get away with harming 14,000 people and not one person has been held directly accountable.

Unbelievable- 2021 and this crap is still going on. Whoever's responsible is complicit.

He felt a responsibility to GM, not to the citizens.

No he didn’t say “sorry”. Damn right your sorry.

Water is life. This is heartbreaking. We’re affecting our future and more importantly, theirs.

Thanks for the update.

I can't control my tears! Those poor kids

Thank you Dr.

Ive been dealing w this crisis for 7 yrs. My son is seven now and seems to be doing good but i will never trust that water again.

This doctor is an American patriot and hero!!!

So, those engine parts were more valuable than human lives?

Thank you

This is just so sad and break's my heart

I am curious to know if all those plastic bottles are being recycled. Otherwise, Flint might have another problem. Not as serious as lead in the water, for sure. But trash is trash.

I was just talking about this yesterday! What a convenient 60 minuites to be published now

So preventable. So heart breaking... =(

Over 1500 communities in America have unsafe drinking water.

Great Lakes vs Flint River? Who got rich?

Wasn't this caused by a politician's greed? Is he or she free?

this is why i laugh at my dad when he says, "we used to drink water straight from the hose"

There needs to be a class action lawsuit for the children. Where is Erin Brockovich or someone similar to help with this?

BTW, this was aired at March 15 last year.

I never thought I’d find myself watching anything from 60 Minutes

Flint is glimpse into the future of america.

3 years later the issue is still persisting and I hate this

It doesn't matter the communities this happens in, officials work with big corps. They don't want huge payout settlements. So it's hidden as long as no one in the community gets wiser. Salute to the doctor for sticking with this.

Like Michael Jackson said “they don’t care about us “

With the aging infrastructure in the United States I wouldn’t doubt it if major cities like Boston and Philadelphia will have this problem in the next 5 to 10 years

Fahrenheit 11/9 was an excellent documentary that explained this, even though it was mostly about DJT...

Why haven't the city and state officials been brought up on charges?

I honestly cannot understand how people can be so evil as to allow this water crisis to continue. It's amazing there haven't been mobs out hunting the people responsible. I absolutely would.

This is unbelievable

The pipes may be able to be replaced but the trust of the community in its public servants is going to be extremely hard to get back if that’s even possible😣so incredibly heart breaking

Wow. Poor Babies and people

Who's buying and installing lead pipes for drinking water in the first place? Doesn't make any sense.

This makes my whole body hurt.

I'm from Flint. My kids and I lived with this untill the hives and rashes got to be too much, bathing from bottles isn't fun. .. we were fortunate to be able to leave, we moved north. But we went thru it and half of my family is still going thru the aftermath of this. It's still not fixed. It's 2024 ...

I have installed water lines for cities and municipalities in. Have you ever met the head of your water department‘s? Lots of cities have lead pipes, and even when they are replaced, the lines going to houses with only be replaced usually to the shut off but that depends on the city or town. Do you go to town or city council meetings? How about when a cruise shows up on your street and they hold you up in your car I’m sure you’re one of the pleasant ones…. People need to take part in their communities before it gets too flint state cause it may be too late.

Flint, Newark and unknown others. All done on purpose!

In developing countries they have trucks going around the neighborhood with 20 liter water jugs that mount on dispensers (water cooler). These are refillable and get taken back every time new ones get delivered. That would be cheaper for residents and cause less plastic waste and contamination in water from the plastic.

And correction gm truck and bus used to dump chemicals that ended up getting into the pipelines around van slyke. All they got was a fine and it was swept under the rug.

Are you telling me that they didn't conduct ANY testing on the river water before they made the switch in supply?

This is so sad. No reason these people should have been exposed to this horrible toxin. SAD.

America the richest country has the worst infrastructure.

WOW 🤩 this Dr. is a super star 🌟 an American Hero

It would be great to provide more non-bottled options also, like self sanitizing public depencer stations, or something.☺️

It troubles me that other communities have not received coverage: Placitas, NM, Jemez Springs, NM, and 4 Corners. None of us would drink tea colored tap or well water. And what about their animals?

Shouldn’t they be able to draw from a superfund and get the pipes fixed?

Why is this still not fixed?!

I work in the water industry and we hear about this case often. This tragedy is not discussed enough. But I wanted you to know in my state we use this as an example of what can and will happen if you are negligent. We learn how it happened. What people did to cover it up. What will happen to you if you are this dumb. We cannot undue this tragedy but people are learning from it. Maybe it will help some people to know that.

This is still going on in Flint today! 😭

Yeah this definitely made me tear up. I dont know how the people who allowed this can even live with themselves knowing what they did to the youth present and to come. These people need to be locked up and for a long time at that. Sadly it’ll never happen and we all know it.

This is so sad.

Seems if you google the phrase "Flint clean water" there was an article that read Flint has had clean water for over 1 year now. Why is it still under reported? The report was released early December.

Just moved back home and I’m having to get back used to not drinking the water from tap

Can't believe this is happening in other areas too. This is criminal.

Sad how nothing changes

&&&& praying for the city of Flint . .💔🙏💯

This is crazy!

Why don't they have the bigger bottles?? Like 3-5 gallon, water dispenser kind?

I'm so sad about this. :( this is ridiculous

Is it like +1, +5, or +10 RADS for drinking the water? You can use Rad-away or Rad-X to help.

Some people believe activated charcoal can remove heavy metals from the body, including lead. It probably won’t remove all of it, but it could help. If it was my kid, I would try it.

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Sue them all.

That entire governmental body should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

This is one of those clear examples of it might cost a lot of money to build something but ignoring a problem causes a much larger problem. They tried to save money by switching water source and not spend money on treating it and now they have to rebuild the system, then bottled water which their is the extra cost(i am curious of where this bottle water comes from hopefully not the same multiplical water of flint) which also would be the extra plastic trash and time wasted on having to get bottled water, and then there is the medical and living expenses that will go on for at least a century and not only kids but pregnant women. (fuq this makes me so sad & mad) and presumably legal cost both settlements and court cost.

7:06 whaaaat?? They destroyed a whole generation of lives!

I now have to purchase a new water filter where I live, and I do NOT drink the tap water. I purchase bottled water, and use the filter to wash dishes, and cookware. I do NOT live in Flint, however, I know there are problems across the US with toxic and unpalatable water to drink. (Mesa/Tempe, AZ, Newport News, VA, a city in Connecticut !)

“60 minutes” *looks at time stamp* “Hol up”

I always wonder how this would have been handled would it have happened in Beverly Hills

And I still wonder why pencils still have led in them... 🤔🤔🤔

Sounds like what happened in my town, point pleasant, WV. A plant up river from us was dumping chemicals in the river and it got into our drinking water, caused cancer, liver damage, decreased fertility, and increased risk of asthma and thyroid diseases. Lead poisoning is MUCH worse but they should pay for the wrong they have done to these residents of Flint.