&gt; Remember they switched to flint river to save a &quot;whopping&quot; $1 Million per year.<p>It&#x27;s starting to look like they were offered a deal from their previous water source that would have come in under the price of switching to Flint, so the decision making process was especially weird.<p>&gt; Even without the lead leeching issues, everyone knows the Flint river was an industrial dumping ground for decades and was very toxic - no amount of filtering would have made it safe for constant consumption.<p>As I understand it, the science is that it would have been fine if they hadn&#x27;t failed to add an anti-corrosive agent, against normal best practice.  The lead did not come from the river; the lead came from water pipes being corroded by the water.