
Watts water crisis compared to Flint, Michigan
By Stephen Oduntan Contributing Writer
WATTS — Local residents, including children and senior citizens, are grappling with a growing crisis as lead-contaminated water threatens their health and safety.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, described the situation as “a Flint-like crisis” during a press conference Nov. 22 at the Nickerson Gardens Housing Project. He questioned whether the response would have been faster if the crisis occurred in wealth...
WATTS — Local residents, including children and senior citizens, are grappling with a growing crisis as lead-contaminated water threatens their health and safety.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, described the situation as “a Flint-like crisis” during a press conference Nov. 22 at the Nickerson Gardens Housing Project. He questioned whether the response would have been faster if the crisis occurred in wealth...