Assertion: flint's water | /r/HasProperty | safe
Facets:
value: as a precaution
type: PURPOSE
value: under six years old
type: OTHER
value: despite claims
type: OTHER
value: truly
type: DEGREE
value: under 6
type: OTHER
value: for pregnant
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for breastfeeding
type: PURPOSE
value: generally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The medical community and scientific community will both have to be in agreement, after a period of testing over time, that the water is safe to drink before I ever declare it safe.
text: At some point, local leaders promise, the water in Flint will be safe to drink again.
text: As a precaution, bottled water is still considered the safest option for vulnerable populations, including pregnant and breast-feeding women, infants, and children under six years old whose water tests higher than 150 parts per billion.
text: These results do not show the water in Flint generally is ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe.
text: You can’t just turn on the faucet and assume the water is safe to use.
text: However, experts said the city has made progress here, and the water is considered safe when filtered, putting it on par with other cities with older infrastructure.
text: The EPA also says that bottled water is the safest choice for pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under 6.
text: Meanwhile, city officials continue to insist the water is safe.
text: Why is it that normal people sampling their water are finding all this lead, when the city and state, who are being paid to do this and determine if the water is safe, can't seem to find any lead?
text: All noted a lack of trust, resources and proof that the water is safe.
text: To prove that the water was safe, the Environmental Protection Agency hired Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech scientist.
text: But the NRDC stressed that Masten’s testing was not indicative of Flint’s water being safe.
text: Asked for his thoughts on the declarations that Flint’s water was now safe, Kildee offered no assurances.
text: Ultimately, there are serious questions among Flint residents and experts as to whether Flint’s water is truly safe—or whether the testing that’s been done has been adequate or followed regulations.
text: City and state officials ignored or dismissed them, insisting that the water was safe—and trying to hide evidence to the contrary.
text: The city adds extra lime to the water in an attempt to combat hardness, but Mayor Dayne Walling and state-appointed emergency manager Darnell Earley continued to tell residents the water is safe.
text: Despite claims the water is safe, testing data obtained Sept. 19 shows 10 percent of homes tested in the city saw an increase in lead after the switch to the Flint River.
text: Initially, these complaints were dismissed, and residents were assured that the water was safe.
text: Even as children across the city were being diagnosed with elevated blood-lead levels, and despite early alarms sounded by some employees inside both city and state governments, officials at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality insisted publicly that the water was safe.
text: Still, as the full scope of the water crisis became known and trust eroded in government regulators who had assured the public that the water was safe, it became easy, even rational, for residents to attribute each new itch and headache to the water coming out of their taps.
text: I began thinking about the filtered tap water I used to brush my teeth, the unfiltered water that I had showered in, and everything I drank at local restaurants with signs that promised that their water was safe.
text: Tests released last week show the water is safe, but complaints from residents persist.
text: No one believed state and local officials when they said that this icky brown water was safe.
text: The same week as Bridge Magazine and numerous other publications are reporting about public uprisings in Flint over discolored and smelly water, MDEQ Communications Director Brad Wurfel emails Snyder Deputy Press Secretary Dave Murray and says, “I don’t want my director (MDEQ’s Dan Wyant) to say publicly that the water in Flint is safe until we get the results of some county health department epidemiological traceback work on 42 cases of Legionnaires disease in Genesee County since
text: Officials tell residents the water is safe, Walling at the time saying, “
text: The medical community and scientific community will both have to be in agreement, after a period of testing over time, that the water is safe to drink before I ever declare it safe.
text: For nearly a year, while insisting that the city’s water is safe, the state quietly supplies bottled water to its employees in Flint.
text: Like Mays, she fears the government is saying the water is safe when it is not and is trying to pull its support for Flint residents.
text: Then the mayor of Flint went on T.V., drinking the water, telling everyone in Flint the water was safe to drink.
text: NARRATOR: Today Marc Edwards and local authorities agree that the water in Flint is safe to drink with a filter.
text: Let’s keep in mind, the people of Flint were told the water was safe to drink once before.
text: —for good reason, since families were told by the state that their water was safe to drink, when it fact it was not,” he said.
text: Ministers passed out the filters because Flint City Administrator Natasha Henderson “is the one who told me in late July that the city did not have any part in delivering the 1,500 filters that we secured because their position was that the water was safe to drink.
text: They were told by local and state officials that the water was safe to drink in spite of health complaints of hair loss and skin rashes, followed by neurological effects such as nausea and nervous tremors, immune effects, bone pain, and growth problems in developing children.
text: Anthony does not believe the water is safe to drink, but said he feels bullied into using and paying for it anyway.
text: As a precaution, bottled water is still considered the safest option for vulnerable populations, including pregnant and breast-feeding women, infants, and children under six years old whose water tests higher than 150 parts per billion.