Dirty Water: Danger From the Tap | CNN Digital Documentary
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2018
- It’s not just Flint, Michigan. Bad water is more widespread than you think. Aging infrastructure is leaving thousands of rural communities vulnerable to contamination with no fix in sight. CNN travels to two of them.
Virginia Tech engineering Professor Marc Edwards watched as water flowed from a garden hose in Enterprise, Louisiana. As he moved a jar to catch a sample, the color changed from clear to brown.
"When mine comes out, it comes out black," Enterprise resident John Tiser said as he watched Edwards work.
Tiser, Enterprise's newly appointed water board president, was giving Edwards a tour around this rural community in central Louisiana, where residents have struggled with water problems. He says his wife drives 20 miles each direction to do laundry in a town with clear water.
Concerned about the potential health effects for his family, including his two daughters, he ran for a seat on the local water board.
What drives him, Tiser said, is "being sure that they're not consuming anything that 20 years from now is going to wind up hurting them."
Years of water system neglect means that the 250-or-so residents there are left with pipes that leak more than 70% of their water into the ground, Tiser said -- all because they can't afford to fix them.
"We're basically putting Band-Aids when we need to go to the ER. That's where we're at," he said.
Read more here: www.cnn.com/2018/11/28/health...
Reporter: Sara Ganim
Executive Producer: Margaret Dawson
Produced and Edited by Matthew Gannon
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The more they turn a blind eye the more it will cost in the future. Stop giving big corporations billions in tax incentives/subsidies. There's communities that need it more.
The EPA gave Flint billions. I wonder what happened to the money?
They have no future, this is not getting any better, the sooner people realize this the better.
@ Peter Gobkoswki ...Yeh Obama fucked up, now Trump is fucking up, what's your point?
that is the problem, just like with the housing bubble, they say it's good now, then outcry DISASTER when a democrat takes office.
As someone from the Netherlands, this just sounds like gross dereliction of duty of the politicians who are supposedly controlling the budgeting of the water supply. Water is a basic human need, this quality is just unacceptable. Fearing the quality of my tap water is almost anathema to myself as I can always rely on my tapwater to be perfectly drinkable. My country is absolutely irrelevant on a global scale. It is for that reason that it astounds me that the US, for all its power and might, seems to be incapable of giving its own citizens this basic human requirement.
Their government would rather pump billions into the military industrial complex than provide their citizens with safe, clean drinking water.
Agreed, Ivo. In the UK, you would not think twice about drinking from a tap. The US is truly becoming a 3rd world country.
Ivo Bos helemaal mee eens
These are disgraceful, appalling situations that should never happen. But it's not typical in the US for people to not have access to clean water. Most people do. The reason this report is important is not because most Americans live this way, it's because no American should have to live this way.
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Unbelievable that this is still happening in America. Money cannot continue to be more important than people.
Third world country
NEVER DRINK TAP WATER! If you must, boil it first. Don't believe me? Have it tested.
Most of the bottled water is just tap water run through inadequate filters, too.
In oregon our water cones from the mountains so im good
Not gonna help if there's lead in it.
@@jgroovy1973 It's your body.
@@connectedone2343 - I'm not saying tap water isn't bad. I'm just saying that people who think bottled water is much better are wrong. Studies have shown most rivers in the US contain traces of every drug known to man.
Need Erin Brockovich
And this is supposed to be the greatest country in the world when third world people have cleaner water
I'm surprised you people didn't protest and take to the streets
Great reporting from cnns investigative journalists.
They must expose the corporate polluters and invest in water management.
I'm sure the tax cut to the rich would have paid for fixing the ageing infrastructure but CEOs needed them bonuses.
Oh WOW!
The water used to be really good where i live but a few years ago it started to have this disgusting taste and we have been buying bottled water ever since.
amazing!
Testing a house with lead soldered copper pipes doesn’t tell that theirs lead in the water of the city water system. It just tells you that there is lead soldering in the piping of the house!!!
@Emma With The Gs That the piping needs to be replaced in every home.
@@Spearhand00 No.
*_Is a city letter stating undrinkable levels of ARSENIC & RADON good enough for the GOVT, state, Cty, City etc TO BE RESPONSIBLE for changing water infrastructure?!_*
That’s what’s happening up here in the Northern Midwest states of America as well (pun intended).
So... how do we get ahold of this Mark guy & y’all???
*This is getting ridiculous* 😠
Jordan chariton on his channel status coup, which he shared with Jimmy Dore, has done an excellent job covering this crisis knocking on 400 houses in Michigan.
I am lost for words!
bacterial meningitis? holy fuck that is so scary
It's a shame that we still have water bills for this nasty water. SMDH
Why can’t we as a people work all together in those communities pick up a shovel, dig up all the water pipes from the water treatment facility too all the homes affected with this problem. Then install new pipes. It might take a long time but when it’s all done it would be worth it. How do you think City infrastructures where built in the Middle Ages, with a shovel and many humans working together. There was no electricity or large energy powered mechanical trucks back then. We can do anything as a people if we where to put are minds & body’s together and get things done instead of keep blaming someone else. Especially at the “Breaking Point” when it effects us humans too live.
I pray someone from Marietta Power & WATER is watching...This is Your Heads Up!!
Pay taxes for dirty water
In Florida you should live for free no Fed tax
I live in Abbeville,La on the river and have seen the water turn Neon green. The tap water reeks of of chemicals. I have been experiencing nausea and skin irritation for the last two years; especially since the flood. I buy bottled water but still have to bath in it. Where do you get tests that are affordable?
If America is getting 150 billion from saudi use that money to fix these water issues, use the "blood money" for something good & healing!
13:10 What does a wobbly faucet have to do with the quality of the water?
21:31 this guy's excuses lag more than my wi-fi
That's why the water in my bathroom sinks smells like sewer water at times.
Edit: The fact that I have to pay for my water bill I expect cleaner water not buy a thousand dollar purifier to get clean water from water that I already am paying for.
Yes, it's just like the chemicals they put in our food. We pay money to be poisoned. Good luck with your health.
xX squeaker Xx I have notice the same thing here in Memphis.
Don't drink your tap water, ever.
@@Thyalwaysseek but that's the thing we pay for water to shower and wash our dishes where we eat we can at least drink from it too but cant with out a purification system installed and good ones are expensive so then we have to buy bottled waters and they all have different tastes and stuff and real h20 is supposed to be tasteless it's some wierd stuff going on
@@carljohnson4996 oh man I feel for you it baffels me you guys dont have clean water, it should be priority NUMBER ONE.
So sad
Trump said we need to fund the military with millions of dollars but can’t fix our water issue?
I have to right an essay on this plz help me
Who do you call to have your water tested?
America approximately 323million people 800billion military budget millions of dollars to NASA,millions to fight war aboard but don't even have a proper water system for there own country
this kind of story Don Lemonhead need to cover. Real stories affecting real Americans
OMG! It's like a third world country. Disgraceful. This is a basic human right.
Catch my ass out there catching rain water and boiling it🤣
I just heard Trump say we have the cleanest air and water this can't be .
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Don't pay
LaVerne Coleman : GET RAIN 🌧 WATER JUST , ADD A GOOD , FILTER .!!!!!! . 💦😎🇺🇸😎IN A LARGE , BARREL ....
South Carolina !
POV: your teacher made you watch this
u in my class or something?
@@jimmyjhons882 my teach's name is Shelton, you?
They talk about fixing the problem but offer no solutions . Your water has rust in it cause pipes are made of cast iron/ductile iron . Your talking about reinventing a whole industry . Any new elements/materials out there that that pipes can be made of . Oh wait plastic hdpe but I’m sure that’s unsafe to .
im suspect of our water in detroit too!
Definitely agree our local and state governments are corrupt for sure. I had a dry blood analysis a few months ago and it showed heavy metal toxicity. I no longer drink or cook with the water.
My tap is dangerous :) Mind if I "Tap" dat?
Most people in Louisiana buy bottled water. It's common knowledge you shouldn't drink it
We have been dealing with contaminated water for 29 years, after a lot of research and development we have finally come up with the publics solution for water filtration and the removal of all the chemicals and heavy metals in the water, The Alkaline H2o Pro by USA Water Quality is the answer to the publics concern . It is a tragedy to see how some people have to deal with contaminated water.
And this is supposed to be the 20 th century..smh...🤔
we need to change...
So vote in a city hall that is going to do something about it, then county, then state, and if you get Federal everyone between you and Congress failed you. Vote them out.
They just vote new corrupt puppets in here in Louisiana.
who the hell is drinking sink water now in 2018. Whatever happened to the Dakota pipe line?
Are there no filters they can use.
@Emma With The Gs Or brain eating amoeba.
Damn, no jobs, now no water.
my water ain't that damn dirty
This is so sad. In a country with So many trillions of government tax money... basic rights are not even given... no clean Water no health care and every town is left to it's own without any government help or fines when they don't meat the standards...
I'm from the Netherlands where the water quality is amazing imho, (it dienst beat the well watering the hills of Austria where my grandfather's aunt moved to )
But it's stable, state great, and pure and stable enough I can fill my fish tanks and water my orchids with water with.
next to no chlorine residue with a ph of 7.5 and compared to the rrilionndoler needed to replace all pipes pay a A small tax for that..
18 euro per month to be precise.
Everybody payes per units of people living in the house contaminating the waste water × the water used per year. To pay for cleaning the waste water that
Goes into the sewidge systems
wich gets filtered then goes trough basins of biofilters with bacteria cleaning the water it then gets
sanitized fuether to regulated norms before getting pumped into rivers lakes and canals until it's naturally filtered back down into the groundwater.
Wich then gets pumped up As close as possible to the distribution centre of that area
and filtered and sanitized to drinking water standards.
wich is done by a diff company. But both work under strict government oversight.
It's a but more complex but it's late and I just wanted to say...
Darn that's so sad that a country with So much technology progress and money the well bieng of it's citizens isn't priority nr 1. Without healty people with good educations how is America going to flourish to higher living standards, better economic growth.
Make America great starts with safe healty happy educated people. And from what I am seeing in the news half of the population isn't safe
mass shootings in schools and other places, cop killing black citizens , kkk white suroemacy, milions of rape and assault victems, many don't have safe drinking water like a third world country wages that keep people in poverty with 40 to 60.your work weeks..no healthcare
how are people to flourish to be better to aim high when basic rights aren't even given.
I don't get why not everybody is outraged and votes for reform...
You have to understand that Americans are easy to trick with red-baiting and the fantasy of millions that are just around the corner for them (regardless of profession), so taxes cannot be that high. Start here rationalwiki.org/wiki/Libertarianism and follow the links. It's what Geert Wilders wants for your country.
Obama didnt do much. Trump is finally bringing attention to the little guys of america. I'm glad I live in tennessee where we have great water, roads,and conservative leaders. And a great community that looks out for each other. Most of these liberal towns are the opposite like baltimore,flint,detroit,chicago,etc...
Poor people. That's appalling. I feel sorry for them.
What are we going to do????
Why don't the flint Michigan people collect the snow fall and store it in water tank. They can collect it during winter and store it for the whole year, or is the snow also too polluted too ?
26:05 after his laugh he looks like he hates him
Documentary is spelled wrong.
Thank your local and state elected officials. Or take them to court.
That's a joke. They all lie and back each other up.
2009???? Oh my God 😟😟
Sick
Gov made a lot of $ from the process the people went through too.
Let’s build a wall!!!!!!!!! Yeah how about you help these places first please
Flint should have dealt with this years ago. They were give a few billion to fix it. What did they do with the money?
When a town officials and state government refuse to correct the problem this is when the residents have the right to take control and act on behalf of all the people of the community.
This was painful to watch the pointless merry go round of testing.
1.2 million should have been used to implement the new filtration system or area wells. NOT more testing. The mayor needs to be fired.
Great investigative piece. Unfortunately, I was highly distracted by the gorgeous reporter... oye!
Instead of having money going towards that stupid board wall why don’t we use all that money for small towns to give them back on their feet
Flint was already given a few billion to fix the problem. What did they do with the money?🤔
H.Pylori....that equals ulcers
Water has been fucked for 5 years now. Wtf
Clean water is a basic human right 😕
SAEED AHMED clearly the American government doesn’t agree
welcome in corporatocracy
CNN keeps us woke 💙
EPA works for Corporations not the people.
Shameful
We DO have world class drinking water regulations, but regulations without compliance or enforcement, regulations are just hot air, not worth the ink & paper they are written on.
Trump got rid of a lot of the regulations.
It seems like instead "revitalizing" cities and so forth money could be used differently.
Better late than never CNN , others have been covering this for years.
Why doesn’t me beast help. Not kidding
Welcome to America
This is why you buy a PUR filter it removes 99.99% of lead, rust, pesticides, and medications. I been drinking filtered water since 2011. I knew something was not right with these old pipes. No issues so far.
People, you can't rely on the system as it is set up to care about your health, you have to be the one on top of your better being and do what it takes to insure that.
Much needed video,...
On a liter note: The chick he brought with him had cakes.
*MySoGenY*
K.
*_dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women._*
This is the definition of misogyny. Which he doesn't show:
1. Dislike of Woman
2. Comtempt for women
3. Prejudice against women
These people finna turn into pennies & pencils
melophobia you thought that was funny😴
Andrew Yang brought me here! God DAmn it ! I thought that we are living in USA!(the greatest nation)
Please upload more of these mini documentaries to youtube.
"Don't drink it, don't give it to your chillren", I think that water 💦 is making them a bit more Stoopid.
Democratic and republican the leaders and the coorperates must come to gether, the corperates have bilions and trillians of dollars, it is a peanut to achieve a clean water infrastructures, it does cost lot of dollars of course but it is possible, also when the water is clean that should be the new standard, and well laws should protect the infrastructure and enviorment from companies like exxson and BASF that do want to flush chemicals in a cheap way into the water system. Flusing is only allowed if they process it correctly. It is called a water system. America does not have any norms and values, or laws to protect the standard. Even the democrats are hor hor and horripic, you may live 100 years maybe like this and then you have no workers that are healty enough to work for the very very ritch Amazons. I hear the workers have 2 or 3 jobs in a full week to be able to pay all bills. In other words, go to Canada and let the Mexican work for the ritch families. The kapitalism has gained so much of billions and trillians of dollars, the system will not change, a multi party system would help and cleanup of the current senators, there is too much influence and hired people working as respresentative of the folks and too many hired ritch sentors working in the goverment, or say it clear to the people goverment is only for law and forcement jobs, and not for infrastructure or clean water or affortable living. goverment is for jobs at the military which are send by the coorperates.
democrats have always railed on this.
companies have always cut corners to an unhealthy degree when there is no regulation.
and republicans just say that big government should not do anything about anything.
I'm not liking this because it is a good thing I'm liking this because I've never heard of this happening elsewhere and I'm annoyed
Drinking water in NY right now as we speak feel kind of weird now
You should get it tested. Even if water looks nearly clear, there are poisonous toxins and lead in it at the ppb or parts per billion level.
I haven't been able to drink our water in 20yrs. Either smells like dirt or bleach. And was brown and muddy turned all our whites dingy. But the City clerk said it was safe to drink. 🤢
Its not usual for CNN to cover or report such topic's.????
It's all about the money. Don't ever forget that.
One of the reasons I cackle when I here someone boom America is the greatest nation on earth..... yeah if your rich and live within 100 miles of ether cost. the further away you get the more like a 3rd world country it becomes, often been even worse then these quickly developing countries.
Cnn coming through with the hottie "journalist".
Don’t give it to your chiren
A bit of natural logic here. If you have to get water from an infested source first you need good filtration and secondly dirt kinda close by will have a lower degree of infestation and out of the millions of microbes in the dirt something will be out pacing the infestation which might not at a low dose be that dangerous when added to the the water. Organic tuning of water could be useful it just most people are to clean to consider the issue properly.
We need new representation in this country.
Let Mike Pence Taste This Water Before Dump 45 🤔
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Dasssss Tufffffff
. You people are making a joke of it, It actually began at the Dupont plant in West Virginia. 3M sold the chemical knowing it caused birth defects and cancer. Animals and a baby to a factory worker had birth defects and denied it for decades. By the time it was discovered, everyone in the World was affected, not one clean blood sample could be found. Finally, one was located and it had been donated by a young man just before he headed to the Korean war. It had never been touched. We have all been affected by the teflon/c-8/PFAs all the same chemical, Dupont never changed the chemical, they changed the name. Now our government is playing dumb about it and trying to blame the defense department for this exposure. This lawsuit of 3500 had been going on before the year 2000. Every one in the world has PFAS in their blood. CNN lying to the public. This information is widely available.
See what happens when you don't test air and water. Let President and his great family drink that shit omg this is crazy.
Why didn't Obama fix this problem when he had the chance?
Obama Obama blame him. Well you know what trump is President now so tell him to and drink it. Why did trump take out regulations on air and water. Oh blame Obama for that too. Come on already
They lie on the test results, too.
Nice suits on the govs we all bought.