Thread by @JordanChariton

🧵With the full expectation mainstream media will soon move on from #JacksonWaterCrisis—like they did for ONGOING #FlintWaterCrisis—here's list of other cities across U.S. w/ serious water quality issues

🚨Detroit
🚨Chicago
🚨Milwaukee
🚨Pittsburgh
🚨Newark
🚨Wilmington NC

🚨Philadelphia
🚨Denmark SC
🚨Benton Harbor MI
🚨 Gadsden AL
🚨 MULTIPLE cities/towns in Texas
🚨MULTIPLE cities/towns in California

These are just SOME of the cities/towns with problems ranging from lead, bacteria, PFAS (cancer causing byproduct of the manufacturing of TEFLON), fracking fluid, toxic herbicides, arsenic, and more. National and local media mostly ignore while local water utilities cheat on...

testing or simply don't test for most contaminants. Most water plants and water departments across the country are chronically understaffed with outdated equipment or lack of basic equipment needed to properly treat water for safe drinking water consumption...

There is a reason water is now being traded as a stock commodity like gold and oil--Wall St expects scarcity and eventually shortages earth.org/water-trade/

For @StatusCoup I have continued covering the Flint water crisis—having reported in Flint 18 times since 2016—because I believe a city being poisoned, massive cover-ups after-the-fact, and residents left to slowly die is a major news story. SC will continue to cover Flint and ...

@StatusCoup other cities/towns with toxic water and toxic politicians endangering their citizens' health. Important to note--most of these areas are predominately Black and brown and/or poor whites.