ERG Alum Dr. Peter Gleick calls for action in Flint, Michigan focused on monitoring, testing, and fixing water at every single school to protect children.
“Fixing the problem in Flint — and elsewhere — will take years of hard work because the solution requires a combination of technical improvements, reinvestment and modernization of entire urban water treatment and distribution systems, the physical replacement of lead service lines to some homes, and fundamental changes in the people, regulations, and institutions responsible for protecting the public health.”
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