{"product_id":"9781943995080","title":"Poison on Tap","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most valuable and illuminating account yet of the Flint water crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt took more than a year for the truth to finally, painfully emerge - that Flint, Mich., residents had been drinking lead-poisoned water despite months of complaints about foul smells, discoloration and, worse, ill children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the award-winning journalism of Bridge Magazine, \u003ci\u003ePoison on Tap\u003c\/i\u003e provides a riveting, authoritative, in-depth account of the government blunders, mendacity and arrogance that produced the water crisis in Flint:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• How state-appointed emergency managers put cost-cutting ahead of public safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• How state experts misinterpreted basic safeguards, while federal regulators dithered for months about warning the public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• How a governor missed the many red flags.\u003cbr\u003eAnd how a series of heroes refused to accept the pat dismissals of government agencies, needling and fighting until their voices were heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoison on Tap\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling case study in how government at all levels can go very wrong - and yet shows the power of the human spirit to overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sometimes truth is stranger and scarier than fiction-such is the case with the Flint Water Crisis. Bridge Magazine staff painstakingly document one of the most significant cases of environmental injustice in U.S. history.\" -Marc Edwards, Virginia Tech professor whose work helped prove that the regulators were wrong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mission Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040571998448,"sku":"9781943995080","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943995080_p0.jpg?v=1763790709","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943995080","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}