{"id":969653,"date":"2021-11-04T21:59:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T01:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969653"},"modified":"2021-11-04T21:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T01:59:40","slug":"mich-residents-line-up-to-collect-bottled-water-amid-ongoing-benton-harbor-lead-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mich-residents-line-up-to-collect-bottled-water-amid-ongoing-benton-harbor-lead-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mich. residents line up to collect bottled water amid ongoing Benton Harbor lead crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmich-residents-line-up-to-collect-bottled-water-amid-ongoing-benton-harbor-lead-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969653&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2571449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2571449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers prepare bottled water to be distributed to residents at the local high school parking lot Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, in Benton Harbor, Mich. (AP Photo\/Charles Rex Arbogast)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:43 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, November 4, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Residents in Benton Harbor, Michigan have been advised to drink and cook with bottled water due to alarming levels of lead found in the city\u2019s water system. For the past three years, the city detected elevated levels of lead in their water system and with a water main rupturing Thursday, the city was forced to temporarily shut off the public water supply altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) issued an executive directive the same day to address drinking water safety and previously promised to allocate millions of dollars to replace the city\u2019s lead service lines, although it could take decades to replace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to replace the pipes,\u201d stated the superintendent of Benton Harbor area schools Andrae Townsel. \u201cIt\u2019s plain and simple. Pipes need to be replaced. Once we replace it, we can drink this fresh, tasty, beautiful water, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Whitmer announced a six-step plan to help prevent residents from consuming potentially hazardous water and said her first priority is getting clean water for everyone in Michigan. However, the state already experienced a similar crisis in Flint, Michigan causing people to wonder why this recurring problem isn\u2019t being fixed sooner if Whitmer claims it\u2019s her top priority.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Advisory: EGLE provides 11,000 pages of data, documents related to Benton Harbor drinking water: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WhuXvm3tE7\">https:\/\/t.co\/WhuXvm3tE7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michigan EGLE (@MichiganEGLE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichiganEGLE\/status\/1456325127134760964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Families in Benton Harbor say waiting in lines for cases of water is time consuming and also question what it means for their health since the issue has been ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need all the help we can get, all the water we can get right now, because like I said, we don\u2019t know how this is going to end up,\u201d stressed volunteer, Willie Davis.<\/p>\n<p>For now, residents have been advised to continue cooking and drinking only from bottled water as part of the governor\u2019s initiative. In addition, residents have resorted to even filling their toilets with the provided water in order to be able to flush.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the county sheriff said this isn\u2019t just a problem for Benton Harbor, but for the entire country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCities are getting old, and we put lead pipes in a long time ago. So, this is not going to just happen here. It\u2019s going to happen across the country,\u201d said Sheriff Paul Bailey. \u201cThese lead pipes are going to have to be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/rep-mccaul-biden-is-weak-not-strong-on-china\/\">Rep. McCaul: Biden Is Weak, Not Strong On China<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers prepare bottled water to be distributed to residents at the local high school parking lot Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, in Benton Harbor, Mich. 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