Virginia Tech Researchers Studied The Water In Flint

It appears that a bunch of people from my alma mater might have earned the right to say "we told you so" in regard to the problems with the water system of Flint, Michigan.  From The Roanoke Times:

Members of the Virginia Tech Flint Water Study team get a lot of questions.

They come from family, friends and more than two dozen media requests daily in recent weeks for the team’s leader, professor Marc Edwards, a nationally known expert on municipal water quality.

How much lead is in the water in Flint? What’s the risk to the public? How does it feel to have the president and a governor address your research?

The group of 25 researchers from Blacksburg traveled to Michigan four times to analyze the tap water and then worked to make their findings public after they were ignored by government agencies. The work has resulted in national attention on water infrastructure, a state of emergency, resignations and a switch back to an old water system.

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