密执根州伏林市，含铅自来水问题可能要15年才能解决

腐蚀严重的输水管

有色的自来水

 

 

愤怒的民众

国会听证会

 

Here’s How Hard It Will Be to Unpoison Flint’s Water

 

It is possible to trace every drop of toxic water spewed from Flint, Michigan back to two terrible decisions. The second was switching the city’s supply from treated Lake Huron water to the corrosive broth in the Flint River. Left untreated, that water unleashed the disaster stored in the walls of the city’s first bad decision: its lead pipes.

In the past few weeks, the nation’s attention has increasingly focused on Flint’s public health disaster. At least 15 percent of the city’s homes have water with lead levels exceeding the safe limit established by the federal government. Several of those homes had water with lead levels 900 times above the safe limit. Poor political decisions caused the crisis, but it wouldn’t have happened at all if the lead pipes weren’t there to begin with. The current solution is a stopgap—spiking the water supply with an anticorrosive chemical. But if the powers that be want to eliminate the risk completely, they will ultimately have to replace all the lead plumbing. A September estimate, only recently released by Michigan governor Rick Snyder, puts the cost of replacing all the lead pipes in Flint at $60 million. And the project will take 15 years.

 

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• 制度问题，句号。 -区分大小写已经存在- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/05/2016 postreply 21:02:15

• 然而9小时过去了,显然堵在制度缺陷的路上了 -EY2008- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/06/2016 postreply 19:48:11

• 看到他国的内务，也是背后的制度；同是市场经济吧…… -青松站- ♀ (1021 bytes) () 02/05/2016 postreply 22:54:51

• 美国在试图改变过去三十年的营运方式，但是 -青松站- ♀ (249 bytes) () 02/05/2016 postreply 23:21:29

• 私有化的结果，地表水已经高度污染，不可饮用，所以很多州规定使用地下水，由于 -笑薇.- ♀ (179 bytes) () 02/07/2016 postreply 05:00:46