A detailed investigation of the Flint water crisis that traces how decisions by state and local officials—driven by cost-cutting, mismanagement and a flawed emergency governance structure—turned a city’s water supply into a public-health catastrophe; the book follows residents, doctors, scientists and activists as they uncover lead contamination, government denials and data manipulation, documents the human toll and long-term consequences for children and the community, and situates the disaster within broader themes of structural racism, environmental injustice and the failures of regulatory institutions.