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Go Behind TIME’s Flint Water Crisis Cover
"THIS BOY ACTUALLY FEARS THE WATER. IT'S LIKE KRYPTONITE TO HIM."
Sincere Smith, 2, of Flint, Mich., suffers from a full-body rash his mother blames on bathing in municipal water from the Flint River.
Sincere Smith is 2 years old, but he looks twice his age. That’s because of the steroids prescribed to treat his rashes, which appear on his face and entire body. Sincere, one of three children in a family living in Flint, Mich., had been bathing in water that the city began pumping in from the local river in 2014. That water was later found to be contaminated with lead.
Sincere no longer bathes with Flint River water—his mother, Ariana Hawk, washes him with bottled water—but that doesn’t mean his pain is gone. Each day, Sincere dreads bath time. “This boy actually fears the water,” says Regina H. Boone, the Detroit Free Press photographer who shot this week’s TIME magazine cover. “It’s like Kryptonite to him: he starts screaming. His mother says it’s burning him and when he’s in pain, the whole family is in pain.”
Boone met Sincere and his family after a Detroit Free Pressreporter, Elisha Anderson, met Hawk at at one of Flint’s public schools during a blood-test drive for children. Going over to their house the next day helped “put a face to this issue” of lead poisoning, says Boone.
When Boone photographed Sincere, she felt his pain, she says. “He just seems so innocent,” she says, “and so sad at the same time.”
Regina H. Boone is a photographer with the Detroit Free Press.
Myles Little, who edited this photo essay, is a senior photo editor at TIME.
Olivier Laurent is the editor of TIME LightBox. Follow him on Twitterand Instagram @olivierclaurent.
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Week in Review: Flint water crisis, teacher sick-outs, Obama visits Auto Show
DETROIT - It was an eventful week in Metro Detroit, so Local 4 is giving you a look back at some of the biggest stories.
FLINT WATER CRISIS:
Residents in Flint continued to suffer from high levels of lead in their water supply and received national recognition from President Barack Obama, who signed a Michigan emergency declaration late last week.
This week, Local 4 introduced you to the people who exposed the Flint water crisis and took you through Gov. Rick Snyder's timeline of events.
As the rest of the nation began to recognize what was happening in Flint, TIME Magazine released a cover Thursday that read "The Poisoning of an American City. Toxic water. Sick kids. And the incompetent leaders who betrayed Flint."
It was announced Friday that two employees from Snyder's office were suspended after an internal investigation into the water crisis.
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FLINT’S WATER CRISIS EXPLAINED IN 3 GIFS
HOW LEAD GOT IN THE WATER
The town of Flint is still reeling from the contamination of its water supply, which exposed thousands of residents to lead-laced water, put Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the political hot seat and prompted an emergency declaration from President Obama.
So how did a town of 100,000 lose access to something as basic as clean drinking water? First you have to understand how Flint got its water before the crisis.
Flint’s water when it was safe
For almost half-a-century, Flint purchased water from Detroit, which properly treated the water with orthophosphate, a chemical that essentially coated the pipes as water flowed through them, preventing lead from leaching into the water supply. Here’s what the process looked like then.
A change in the water supply
Flint switched from Detroit’s water supply to the Flint River in 2014, in part to save money. But the city did not use corrosion control to prevent lead from entering the water. The river itself was also found to contain eight times more chloride than Detroit’s water, a chemical that is highly corrosive to metals. Most residents in Flint have decades-old lead service lines that connect their homes to the city’s main water pipes. When water from the river flowed through those pipes, it ate away at their insides, allowing lead to enter the supply. Here’s what it looked like after the switch—with red used to connote lead, a colorless substance.
Don’t drink the water
Once Flint switched its water supply, most Flint residents knew it immediately. Residents described the water coming from their taps often as a brownish-yellow and said it both smelled and tasted odd.
It was later discovered that the water was carrying significant amounts of lead, which can prove especially damaging to children. In October 2015, the city switched back to the Detroit water supply, but Flint’s water is still deemed unsafe to drink.
Below, you can see what some of the contaminated water actually looked like.
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