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Without These Whistleblowers, We May Never Have Known the Full Extent of the Flint Water Crisis — Transcript

by Smithsonian Magazine · 178 words · 24 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube
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  1. 0:04LEEANNE WALTERS: December of 2015, our water started
  2. 0:08coming through our tap brown.
  3. 0:10It wasn't just our family, there were other families
  4. 0:13in the city experiencing rashes and hair loss.
  5. 0:17MARC EDWARDS: It was some of the worst lead in water
  6. 0:19I'd ever seen.
  7. 0:20Some samples were two and a half times the hazardous waste
  8. 0:23levels of lead.
  9. 0:26We had to try to work with Flint residents
  10. 0:29to do the job that these agencies refused to do.
  11. 0:33LEEANNE WALTERS: The community came together and fought
  12. 0:35together to be heard.
  13. 0:37People realized there was something seriously wrong.
  14. 0:39This is not a Flint problem.
  15. 0:40This is a United States problem.
  16. 0:42I urge you to help restore some of the trust lost,
  17. 0:45and protect all the citizens in the United States
  18. 0:48by never allowing this to happen again.
  19. 0:51MARC EDWARDS: The fight's not over,
  20. 0:52but it has sent a message that's reverberated
  21. 0:55around the country.
  22. 0:57When all the odds were against us they refused to give up,
  23. 1:03and it was something that I will treasure
  24. 1:05for the rest of my life.

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