It has been four years since the Flint water crisis made national headlines and residents are fighting for compensation. Attorneys for thousands of Flint residents made the case that a ...

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For residents dealing with the crisis day to day, life hasn't returned to normal. Uhrek said his family uses filtered water to bathe but for drinking and cooking, they're still using bottled water ...

Until the pipeline’s completion, the city’s primary water source came from the Flint River in 2014. Quickly, residents reported a murky, foamy quality of the water coming from their pipes.

Flint's crisis was set in motion in 2014, when a state-appointed emergency manager ended a contract with Detroit's water system and switched to the Flint River to save money.

Back in April 2014, the city of Flint changed its water source from Detroit’s system — which draws from Lake Huron — to the Flint River to save coin. Needless to say, that backfired.

FEMA has been providing bottled water -- some 71,000 liters to date -- and filters to Flint residents. "The situation is anything but being ignored by the White House," Earnest said.

The Flint water crisis began in 2014 when government officials switched the source of the city’s water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River in a cost-cutting measure.

Until the pipeline’s completion, the city’s primary water source came from the Flint River in 2014. Quickly, residents reported a murky, foamy quality of the water coming from their pipes.

Until the pipeline’s completion, the city’s primary water source came from the Flint River in 2014. Quickly, residents reported a murky, foamy quality of the water coming from their pipes.

Until the pipeline’s completion, the city’s primary water source came from the Flint River in 2014. Quickly, residents reported a murky, foamy quality of the water coming from their pipes.