WASHINGTON/DETROIT, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pledged to offer support for the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan yesterday and environmental regulators were set to provide Congress with information about their role.
Blame is swirling after a switch in the water supply to the financially strapped city of 100,000 north of Detroit led to elevated levels of lead in drinking water.
“What is inexplicable and inexcusable is once people figured out that there was a problem there and that there was lead in the water, the notion that immediately families weren’t notified, things weren’t shut down,” Obama said in an interview with CBS.
