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What's Changed And What Hasn't When It Comes To The Flint Water Crisis

NPR | By Ari Shapiro,

Sam Gringlas

Published October 26, 2018 at 4:30 PM EDT

Flint residents Earl (left) and Jeneyah McDonald still purchase bottled water for drinking and cooking. Their sons, Justice, 9, and Josiah, 5, have grown up in Flint as the water crisis unfolded.

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