re: Thousands of Flint residents refuse to pay for poison water; could lose homes.

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state intervened and caused this problem.

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The problem was the use of water from the Flint River, which was a city/county plan dating back to 2007. They could have reconnected to the original Lake Huron source (which is where Detroit gets their water), but declined. This is on the city of Flint for making poor decisions. It's on the state for failing to clean up their river. It's on Flint's former manufacturing giants that used to line the river for damaging the water quality to begin with.

Having known how bad the water quality was, the city should have never even planned to use the Flint River as a source. I suppose the state should have prevented such lunacy before it even started somehow.

The Flint River is so corrosive that almost immediately after it became the primary source of water, a General Motors truck plant had to find an alternate source. The water was corroding equipment and piping in their factory. That's how bad it was.