News Briefs: Recent Documentaries Highlight Flint Water Crisis

A new documentary highlighting the Flint Water Crisis as an example of the country’s aging water infrastructure premiered Sept. 12 at the Capitol Theatre in downtown Flint, Michigan. The film is titled Flint: The Poisoning of an American City and it examines how 5,300 cities in the nation have violated lead rules and how 2,000 public water systems in all 50 states have elevated lead levels.Flint also was also on TV screens nationwide recently for the premier of a Frontline documentary on PBS that focused on the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that occurred during the Flint Water Crisis. Arizona Treatment Plant Approved for Direct Potable Reuse The