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The poisoned city : Flint's water and the American urban tragedy
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Physical Description
305 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"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"--
Contents
- The well
- Corrosion
- Revelations
- Saturation
- Alchemy
- Citizen/science
- Meditations in an emergency
- Blood
- Switchback
- Legion
- Truth and reconciliation
- Genesis.
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.
- Lead poisoning > Michigan > Flint.
- Water quality management > Michigan > Flint.
- Flint (Mich.) > Environmental conditions.