The Flint water crisis: Engineering researchers find answers for alarmed residents

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In 2015, engineering researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) helped to uncover the dangerously high lead levels in Flint water, and listened to a community in distress.
Through a NSF Rapid Response grant awarded to Virginia Tech civil engineering professor Marc Edwards, researchers received federal funding to collect data on the chemical content of residents’ drinking water, providing vital insight into one of the worst human-made, engineering disasters in recent U.S. history.
For young engineers at Virginia Tech, the situation was also a critical lesson on the importance of listening.
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the journal of mutagenicity could not publish what they found in a municipal water supply. they reported that they found numerous mutagens but could not publish which ones they found.

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I love when america puts money into science..

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usa has the nsf. good system of universities too. lets not forget the nih. or the fda the cdc, nist. we are the champions of the world.

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