{"id":170588,"date":"2018-07-11T23:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T03:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=170588"},"modified":"2018-07-11T23:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T03:55:10","slug":"elon-musk-tweets-fixing-flint-homes-with-lead-tainted-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/11\/elon-musk-tweets-fixing-flint-homes-with-lead-tainted-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tweets fixing Flint homes with lead tainted water"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_170592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170592\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8514592946_17190c597b_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170592\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8514592946_17190c597b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Musk later acknowledged in another tweet that most Flint homes have safe water and said he would organize an effort to add filters to houses that need them. (Photo: TED Conference\/Flickr\/CC BY-NC 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8514592946_17190c597b_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8514592946_17190c597b_z-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musk later acknowledged in another tweet that most Flint homes have safe water and said he would organize an effort to add filters to houses that need them. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tedconference\/\">TED Conference<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tedconference\/8514592946\/in\/photolist-dYpvQE-21hWNuS-5AFqF6-7B4UpY-bHjcCK-7TXJEu-nVS8fa-haETfc-21hWNMq-T258wL-cex63W-z4XLj7-qfd5G2-uC8AkW-QGERKU-ftXbTC-oNtTSq-x2dKn7-MF8FRS-jGn7AL-526A61-feq9zL-52281c-qe86hn-W6NAHy-8NYNaD-bzs2ao-bNmF56-sAgpsJ-F5TJHW-7UJorM-7THyua-stC5ez-srjYRs-vWRj6g-uMdB5p-s2rYLD-tuWDGY-FZM1Ch-gTjcFj-5ybZmr-hK3mPS-cech3J-cecUjQ-cec78Y-Q7Egya-gjVgTf-7B1e2F-7B4ZRf-7B1aCZ\">Flickr<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FLINT, Mich. \u2013 Residents in Flint whose homes still may need new water lines due to lead contamination may have a new benefactor in Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The tech billionaire caused a stir on Twitter Wednesday, tweeting Wednesday that he was committing to \u201cfund fixing the water in any house\u201d with contamination above federal levels.<\/p>\n<p>Musk later acknowledged in another tweet that most Flint homes have safe water and said he would organize an effort to add filters to houses that need them.<\/p>\n<p>Lead leached from old pipes after the city began using the Flint River in 2014 without adding corrosion-control chemicals. Flint returned in 2015 to Detroit&#8217;s water system.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of water lines have been replaced and two years of testing has shown home water levels are below the federal action level for lead.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Flint&#8217;s mayor told The Associated Press Wednesday that the city has not been contacted by Musk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLINT, Mich. \u2013 Residents in Flint whose homes still may need new water lines due to lead contamination may have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":170592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[14267,17946,732,30465],"class_list":["post-170588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-elon-musk","tag-flint","tag-michigan","tag-tesla","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}