CNN News:密歇根弗林特自来水含铅超标 司法部介入调查

Our first story takes us to the U.S. state of Michigan. The National Guard has been activated there. A state of emergency has been declared.

首条新闻来自美国密歇根州。该州已经进入紧急状态，国民警卫队已经出动。

It`s all related to the water supply in the city of Flint. About 100,000 people live there and some of them have been exposed to increased levels of lead in their tap water.

事件与弗林特市供水有关。约有10万人居于市。自来水中铅含量增加，一些人已经遇险。

This is serious. Lead poisoning can cause developmental and behavioral problems in children. It can lead to lower IQ levels. It`s irreversible.

这是一件非常严重的事情。铅中毒可以影响儿童身心成长，危害智商。并且造成的伤害是不可逆的。

And what started out as a way to save money in the struggling city has put parts of the population at risks.

事件的起因是为了给这个陷入困境的城市省钱，但是因此威胁到了部分人口的生命。

A preliminary investigation did not blame the city council or the mayor of Flint, but it put the blame at the state level, with Michigan`s Department of Environmental Quality.

初步调查并没有将责任归咎于市议会以及弗林特市市长，但是责任应由州以及密歇根环境质量部承担。

This neighborhood says it all, 15 percent of homes in Flint, Michigan are boarded up. There`s a 40 percent poverty rate, high unemployment, and it`s consistently at the top of the nation`s list of most dangerous places.

这里的居民称密歇根州弗林特市15%的家庭都是用木板围住。这里贫困率达40%，失业率很高。是美国最危险的地方之一。

This 33 square mile city doesn`t even have a grocery store. And now, they don`t have clean drinking water. For 18 months, researchers believe the water flowing through taps across Flint has been tainted with lead.

这个33平方英里的城市甚至没有杂货店。现在,他们没有干净的饮用水。研究人员认为弗林特的饮用水一直受铅污染，时间已经长达18个月。

In an attempt to cut costs, city officials stopped getting pretreated water from the city of Detroit in 2014, and instead began using water from the nearby Flint River. The problem is that the Flint River is 19 times more corrosive than Lake Huron, Detroit`s water source, according to researchers at Virginia Tech. And the city wasn`t treating it according to federal law. Lead pipes began to corrode, leaking into the water.

为了节省成本，2014年佛林特市官员停止使用底特律市处理过的用水，而转用附近弗林特河水。但是，根据弗吉尼亚理工学院研究人员称，弗林特市河水腐蚀性是林伦河的19倍。同时弗林特市没有按照联邦法律处理用水。铅管开始腐蚀，铅泄漏到引用水中。