the water out of the flint river didn't necessarily have the lead in it.as a corrosive chemical. when the water ran through these household pipes, it ate away at the landing right there, therefore exposing the household water to lead. once the leaching of the lead starts, you can't stop it. crews are at work, but three years into the problem, less than 25% of the lead pipes have been replaced. posing as water flows into most houses. >> i'm confused as to why health hasn't forward into the city to replace everybody's pipes. >> brigadier general michael mcdaniel was appointed to oversee the replacement in february of 2016. >> there was no project at that point. nothing had been done. >> people in flint believe recovery is slow because they are poor. >> i think a lot of the issues we deal with at the state and federal levels will be different if you are interacting with people who had influence. >> 12 people died of legionnaires' disease after bacteria festered in stagnant pipes during the 15 state and city officials facing criminal charges ranging up to invo

of two thousand and fourteen the city of flint michigan changed its public water source to the flint river and failed to include corrosion deterrent. liquids to which which will cause the lead to lead from old pipes into the water supply as of now november twenty seventeen the remaining lead pipes in flint won't be completely replaced until twenty twenty but a recent study from daniels grossman and david university of kansas and a west virginia university show that we don't have time to wait using public health records birth and death certificates the researchers compared fetal death rates and miscarriages and flint to fifteen other michigan cities from two thousand and eight to two thousand and fifteen those cities that had not changed their water supply and compared them with the data suggests that influence fetal death rates rose fifty eight percent and thirty rates fell by twelve percent in that time of course the michigan department of health and human services a mediately complained that the study was flawed and they would have to do their own study of the study which really explains