There are many reasons to loathe Democrats.
Since they are America-hating, Constitution-raping rat bastards at the outset, there is precious little that I find appealing about today's Democrats who really aren't anything more than cross-dressing socialists.
Tonight's Democrat debate was a lesson in practice of why neither of these assholes should be ever elected to be President.
Bernard Sanders and Kankles the Klown don't care about the cause; it is all about politics!
Tonight's debate was hosted on the Clinton News Network (CNN) and was held in Flint, Michigan - a fresh prop and exploitation device used by Democrats to point fingers at Republicans.
The narrative that we have all heard is that since Michigan now has a Republican Governor, that means he is responsible for the lead in the water problem and that this Republican intentionally sought to add lead to the drinking water supply to harm black children.
I was curious. Apparently neither Bernard nor Kankles the Klown ever were curious as to how this situation suddenly became an issue. One would have thought that as old as the Flint infrastructure is, that lead in the water there would have been nearly a hundred year old saga.
Well, this is not the case.
I did some research and found a credible and un-biased article chronicling the situation in Flint from Chemical and Engineering News. (February 2016)
Here are some of the background items that you likely don't know....
"Lead contamination is the most troubling in a series of water problems that have plagued Flint since the summer of 2014. All of them were caused by corrosion in the lead and iron pipes that distribute water to city residents. When the city began using the Flint River as its water source in April 2014, it didn’t adequately control the water’s ability to corrode those pipes. This led to high lead levels, rust-colored tap water, and possibly the growth of pathogenic microbes.
LOSS OF CONTROL
When Flint changed its water supply in 2014, the city didn’t adequately control for corrosion, resulting in its water woes.
Flint isn’t the only city susceptible to these problems. The pipes in its old distribution system had seen the same water for decades. Switching water supplies in 2014 changed the chemistry of the water flowing through those pipes. When a switch like this happens, the water system is going to move toward a new equilibrium, says Daniel Giammar, an environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis. “It could be catastrophic as it was in Flint, or it could be a small change.”
Before 2014, Flint was getting its water from the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department, which would draw water from Lake Huron and then treat it before sending it to Flint. Looking to lower the city’s water costs, Flint officials decided in 2013 to instead take water from the Karegnondi Water Authority, which was building its own pipeline from the lake. Shortly after that, Detroit told Flint it would terminate their original long-term water agreement within a year and offered to negotiate a new, short-term agreement. Flint declined the offer. As an interim solution, while waiting for the new pipeline to be finished, Flint began taking water from the Flint River and treating it at the city’s own plant.
Problems with the city’s tap water started the summer after the switch. First, residents noticed foul-tasting, reddish water coming out of their taps. In August and September, the city issued alerts about Escherichia coli contamination and told people to boil the water before using it. A General Motors plant stopped using the water in October because it was corroding steel parts. In December, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality notified Flint that its water was in violation of national drinking water standards because it contained high levels of trihalomethanes, toxic by-products of chlorine disinfection."
In short the problem with Flint's water began AFTER the switch from Detroit's water supply to the Flint River which had a higher corrosive nature and the lack of attention by the Flint water officials to add an anti-corrosion substance that would have cost the city of Flint over $100 per day according to reports I have read.
According to another article written by Terese Olson, an associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, we have a similar conclusion of the cause of the problem as she notes,
Fateful mistakes in Flint
"Water quality issues in Flint began with the decision of city officials in 2014 to switch from buying treated drinking water from Detroit to treating Flint River water themselves using a city-owned treatment facility.The switch was considered a temporary money-saving “fix” to provide the city with drinking water until they were able to join a new regional system, the Karegnondi Water Authority. A 10-month, US$171,000 engineering effort was undertaken to equip the Flint plant to treat Flint River water before it was put into service.
Sources of drinking water supply, in general, include groundwater and surface waters, such as lakes and rivers. Among those water sources, rivers present the greatest treatment challenge."
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