The poisoned city
Subtitle: Flint's water and the American urban tragedy
By: Anna Clark
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781250125149
Subjects: Drinking water; Health aspects; Toxicity testing; Health risk assessment; Contamination; Heavy metals; Lead content
Description: "Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: The well; title: Corrosion; title: Revelations; title: Saturation; title: Alchemy; title: Citizen/science; title: Meditations in an emergency; title: Blood; title: Switchback; title: Legion; title: Truth and reconciliation; title: Genesis.