Flint tapped into Detroit’s municipal water system the following year to receive water sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River. The decision relied on foresight rather than reaction.

The Flint water crisis did not begin on April 25th, 2014, when the city switched its water supply from Detroit’s system, tapping Lake Huron to its own on the Flint River.

For a bit, several years ago, Ms. Mays said there was a sense that Flint might get enough national notice over the water crisis to overcome it. But she said not enough has been done. Attention faded.

Flint, Michigan, changed its water system in 2014, resulting in water so toxic that residents got sick. Some even died. But that flip of a switch isn't when the city's water crisis began.

Read Fast Facts from CNN about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. ... In 2014, while the pipeline was under construction, the city turned to the Flint River as a water source.

Lead seepage into the drinking water in Flint, Mich., has causing a major public health crisis and prompted President Obama to declare a federal state of emergency. This is how it unfolded.

FLINT, Mich. — Ten years ago, smiling politicians posed for cameras while pushing a button, swapping the main tap water source for this majority-Black, impoverished city to the Flint River ...

The city is making plans to use roughly $1 million in federal stimulus and state grant funds to pilot a program for replacing in-home plumbing damaged during the Flint water crisis. The City Council ...

The residents of Flint still have to drink the river water. Jan. 4, 2015 The city announces that Flint’s water contains such a high level of trihalomethanes, a disinfectant byproduct.

In mid-March 2014, the Flint River is announced as the new source of Flint’s drinking water. Leaders, including city council members, city employees and state officials, gathered at the city’s ...

Nakiya Wakes speaks with ABC News' GMA3 about the impact of the Flint water crisis. ABC News Lead and Legionella bacteria leached into the tap water of nearly 100,000 residents between 2014 and 2015.

Flint, Michigan, is in the midst of a crisis because of a contaminated water supply. For two years, a threat has been imposed upon residents and is now in the forefront of the nation’s attention.