The topic of my article is about the Flint Water Crisis. The title of the article is “Plenty of blame to go around in Flint water crisis: #tellusatoday”. I got this article from: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/26/flint-water-crisis-tellusatoday-your-say/79374596/

This article is about the Flint water crisis that happened on January 16. The water ever since the water source change in 2015, there has been a 2.5% increase of children that have an elevated level of lead in their blood. There are a lot of people who are being blamed for this issue, but nobody really knows exactly what happened to the Flint water.

This affects me because if one of the effects was the new water source change, that was a national requirement, that means that Flint probably isn’t the only city that has high lead levels in their water. Also, if water plants aren’t paying attention, they can really get in lots of people sick. This scares me that the water plant people either didn’t notice that the lead was so high in the water or that they just didn’t care about the lead. Also, the sad thing is that nobody knows how the led got in the water in the first place, so the don’t know how to fix the problem yet. If people keep drinking water with high lead levels they can become extremely ill or even die in some cases.

This affects the world in different ways. For one, every country has had a problem with their drinking water. And 2 not every country even has filtered water. Most of the countries in Africa don’t have a lot of pure water that’s safe to drink. That’s why our drinking water is taken so seriously around here, because if not lots of people die or become ill. This problem with the Flint water will be fixed very soon, but we need to be more aware of things like this or else we can be seriously hurt just from drinking water.