Flint Fights Back Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis

• Main Author: Pauli, Benjamin J. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
• Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
• Subjects: Aid & relief programmes; Environmental policy & protocols; social movements; public health; emergency management; activism; environmental racism; lead; citizen science; water governance; infrastructure; expertise; water justice; water treatment; regulation; economic disinvestment; community organizing; deliberative democracy; deindustrialization; structural racism; systemic racism; urban crisis; environmental contamination; pollution; neoliberalism; privatization
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An account of the Flint water crisis shows that Flint's struggle for safe and affordable water is part of a broader struggle for democracy. When Flint, Michigan, changed its source of municipal water from Lake Huron to the Flint River, Flint residents were repeatedly assured that the water was...