Health

Benton Harbor’s Black community fuming over ‘environmental racism,’ water crisis

John Yang:

For the people of Benton Harbor, Michigan, a new morning routine. To make a pot of coffee or brush their teeth, they need to get their hands on bottled water.

Earlier this month, state officials told them not to drink or cook with tap water because of high levels of lead. So the state Health Department is delivering truckloads of bottled water to this small city on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Cherita Bynum (ph) and her 2-year-old granddaughter Kinslie (ph) got into line an hour-and-a-half before distribution started.

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