# Flint, Michigan's water.

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**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flint-michigans-water/742493 "2016-01-08T13:29:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flint-michigans-water/742493/121 "2017-06-16T04:37:16Z")

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Not that I plan to make a habit of bumping old threads, but that’s the way news is breaking recently.

[5 Charged With Manslaughter in Flint Water Crisis](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/flint-water-crisis-manslaughter.html)

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> Five officials in Michigan, including the head of the state’s health department, were charged on Wednesday. It is the closest investigators have come to directly blaming officials for the deaths and illnesses that occurred when a water contamination crisis enveloped this city.
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> The latest charges reached farther than before into Michigan’s state government, affecting two cabinet-level officials in the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder and leaving open the possibility that the investigation would go higher still.

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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flint-michigans-water/742493/122 "2017-06-16T17:33:26Z")

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> [@Projammer](#):
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> Not that I plan to make a habit of bumping old threads, but that’s the way news is breaking recently.
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> [5 Charged With Manslaughter in Flint Water Crisis](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/flint-water-crisis-manslaughter.html)

So we might actually see some justice on this.  
These charges are apparently for the Legionnaires Disease deaths rather than the lead poisoning. Let’s hope that there are also charges for that against the appropriate parties.

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