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https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/JAN16-FlintMichigan.jpg960720The Christian Science Monitor explains why people are getting sick (and dying) from drinking the tap water in Flint, Michigan. The problems started after the City of Flint, at the behest of the Republican-controlled state government, switched its source of drinking water in an attempt to cut costs.