Posted on 05/04/2016 1:44:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama sips water in Flint, tells residents it is safe By Timothy Gardner
FLINT, Mich. President Barack Obama sipped filtered water in Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday and assured parents that children over 6 years old could do the same during a visit to a city still reeling from a scandal over lead-poisoned drinking water.
Obama made the trip to the mostly African-American community to reassure residents that the water was safe even as he predicted it would take more than two years to replace the city's aging pipes, which leached lead into the drinking water.
"The water around this table was Flint water that was filtered," Obama said during a meeting with regulators as he drank some himself.
"It just confirms what we know scientifically, which is if you're using a filter ... then Flint water at this point is drinkable."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I’m surprised he didn’t try to turn it into wine.
Was that actual water from Flint?
How can anyone tell if Obama is affected ?
let the moron drink it for two years...
There is more sources of lead in the environment than just the drinking water. The number one source was lead gasoline use, which was only fully banned in the United States in 1995.
Hence the steep decline in children's lead levels.
It seems very strange that if leaded gasoline was fully banned in 1995, that it could be blamed for raising lead levels in children who were not yet born.
In fact I looked at some other graphs online and it looks like blood levels of lead due to gasoline started declining long before the year 2000. So the graph you posted earlier would appear to show that there was something else going on in Flint.
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