Flint Water Crisis

Writer Wei Jia and Project South’s Azadeh Shahshahani explore why the cathedral is being rebuilt by billionaires, but—five years after the water crisis began—Flint still doesn’t have safe water.

Five years after the water crisis began, the city continues to recover with projects to protect residents and update infrastructure.

Experts say it’s a step in the right direction, but not enough.

Government employees allege that higher ups do not want to prevent another water crisis.

Researchers who helped in Flint, Michigan, are now intervening in Illinois.

“Flint ain’t fixed!”

Nestlé reportedly pays just $200 per year to access underground aquifers in the Michigan town of Evart, just two hours from Flint.

Many of the city’s residents do not trust—or use—what comes out of their tap.

A new Netflix documentary series embeds with the Flint Police Department as the water crisis corrodes the relationship between Flint officials and the predominantly Black citizens they serve.