It has been exactly 2132 days since Flint, Michigan has been without clean water, since trending on headlines earlier in 2018 nothing has changed much during that time. Journalist Ron Fonger has been one of the key people in this Flint Water Crisis, “Fonger is a longtime Flint journalist who was on the beat before others even acknowledged it”. Hes been at the front-end creating articles and informing people about why the water is dangerous since 2014. On January 4th, was when the city Flint acknowledged that the water contains high levels of a disinfectant byproduct called trihalomethanes. Officials stated that although it was a violation against the SDWA(Safe Drinking Water Act), people with normal immune systems will have nothing to worry about. However this is false, many of these people have been exposed to lead poisons because of decisions made in 2015. These are just a few reasons that motivate Ron Fonger as he states in an interview, “When you do see people who are upset to the point of breaking down in tears and people who have been exposed to dangerous levels of lead due to decisions that were made that were poorly thought out that does have an affect on me. I approach that by setting it to the side and trying to get to the bottom of it”.
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