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Rev. Williams: My office
started getting phone calls. "This water is horrible,
it comes out of the tap brown." I'll never forget, one lady
came up to me in a meeting and said, "Reverend, my dog
won't drink this water." Reporter: This crisis began
over a year ago, silently, when the city switched from
a Detroit water system, to the Flint River. The Flint River has
a high salt content, so it corroded the pipes
that it flowed through, and lead from those pipes
leached into the system
started getting phone calls. "This water is horrible,
it comes out of the tap brown." I'll never forget, one lady
came up to me in a meeting and said, "Reverend, my dog
won't drink this water." Reporter: This crisis began
over a year ago, silently, when the city switched from
a Detroit water system, to the Flint River. The Flint River has
a high salt content, so it corroded the pipes
that it flowed through, and lead from those pipes
leached into the system
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Rev. Williams: My office
started getting phone calls.
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"This water is horrible,
it comes out of the tap brown."
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I'll never forget, one lady
came up to me in a meeting
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and said, "Reverend, my dog
won't drink this water."
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Reporter: This crisis began
over a year ago, silently,
00:00:22.722 --> 00:00:25.157
when the city switched from
a Detroit water system,
00:00:25.029 --> 00:00:26.659
to the Flint River.
00:00:26.826 --> 00:00:28.728
The Flint River has
a high salt content,
00:00:28.861 --> 00:00:31.731
so it corroded the pipes
that it flowed through,
00:00:31.864 --> 00:00:34.767
and lead from those pipes
leached into the system.
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