"EPA Questions Flint’s Ability To Provide Clean Water In The Future"

"The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is urging officials in Michigan to address 'systemic issues' that could prevent Flint from providing clean, safe drinking water to the city’s residents over the long term.

In a letter this week to Flint Mayor Karen Weaver (D) and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy detailed a litany of problems that federal regulators had documented in recent months while working alongside state and local officials in the wake of the city’s ongoing water crisis.

'Our own observations and other technical advice we have received have identified a number of significant challenges to the long-term goal of reliable and sustainable clean drinking water for the city of Flint,' McCarthy wrote in a letter dated Thursday and posted on the agency’s website. 'These challenges go well beyond the immediate crisis problems we have all been working so hard to address.'"

Brady Dennis reports for the Washington Post June 17, 2016.