The meeting amounted to little more than damage control for the KWA project as it continues constructing the pipeline from Lake Huron-parallel to and just six miles to the North of the existing Detroit-run pipeline. Map showing the DWSD and the KWA pipelines The change of water is also implicated in the outbreaks of Legionnaire’s Disease that have taken ten lives since the switchover. Though it was known that the KWA system would not be operational until 2016, Flint broke with the Detroit authority and, in 2014, began withdrawing the corrosive water from the Flint River, which leached lead from the city’s aging lead pipe infrastructure and poisoned residents. Wright was the key KWA promoter, pushing the city and regional officials to join the new water authority as an alternative to continuing to purchase water and sewage services from the Detroit system. The KWA and Wright are at the center of the current Flint water disaster. He titled his talk, with an unintended irony, “Dawn of a new era in water supply.” The key presentation at the meeting was given by Jeffrey Wright, the CEO of the KWA and the Drain Commissioner for Genesee County. More than one hundred people attended a meeting on the Karegnondi Water Authority (KWA) in Flint, Michigan on Thursday evening.

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