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The poisoned city : Flint's water and the American urban tragedy /

"Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure"

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Anna (Anna Leigh) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books : Henry Holt and Company, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Drinking water > Contamination > Health aspects > Michigan > Flint.
Drinking water > Lead content > Michigan > Flint.
Health risk assessment > Michigan > Flint.
Heavy metals > Toxicity testing > Michigan > Flint.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Water Supply.
LAW > Public Utilities.
Drinking water > Contamination > Health aspects.
Drinking water > Lead content.
Health risk assessment.
Heavy metals > Toxicity testing.
Michigan > Flint.
Water Supply > standards.
Public Health.
Heavy Metal Poisoning.
Michigan.
Nonfiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Taught by thirst. The well
  • Corrosion
  • Revelations
  • Saturation
  • Part II: Divination. Alchemy
  • Citizen/science
  • Meditations in an emergency
  • Blood
  • Part III: Water's perfect memory. Switchback
  • Legion
  • Truth and reconciliation
  • Genesis.