City’s residents, many of whom live in poverty, fear consequences to their children in Michigan town where life has changed immeasurably

Annette Williams is careful to hold her granddaughter Sharell’s head at bath time, to keep the two-year-old from taking a gulp of toxic water. Though most people no longer drink what flows through Flint’s corroded pipes, many families have little choice but to bathe in it.

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