Lead in Michigan water - How's the air?

Water can be brought in, air - that's another ballgame. Article paints a picture of indifference in the name of profit which is crippling , and has crippled, generations of the poor in Michigan.


"...Southwest Detroit, like Fresno, like Richmond, California, is part of a huge and ongoing public health disaster that began, roughly, with the Industrial Revolution; populations, mostly poor, mostly people of color, sprinkled with the effluent of industry until their bodies changed, their minds changed and their prospects died. The disaster merges with everyday life as generation after generation learns to live with what hobbles it, while the rest of the country and its government institutions watch with tacit acceptance, or barely watch at all. Like in many places where the things the rest of the country uses are made—steel, gasoline, electricity, cotton—the people in and around Detroit have become collateral damage"

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/04/08/michigan-air-pollution-poison-southwest-detroit-441914.html