Greed 1, Flint 0
Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals is Clean Water and Sanitation. One of its targets is universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. With the number of celebrities and companies donating bottled water to Flint, Michigan over the last month and a half, I would suggest that America is currently failing. Flint is a city of 102,000 people, and is less than 70 miles from the banks of Lake Huron, the third largest fresh water lake on earth. Despite this, human greed and arrogance have conspired so that every resident of Flint has been affected by lead poisoning from their water supply over the last two years. (more…)