Flint resident LeeAnne Walters and her son Gavin, left, watch as his twin brother Garrett blows out the candle on a birthday cake seated in their Michigan room where stockpiles of bottled water await daily use on April 29, 2017. The entire city, with a population of nearly 100,000, faced an overhaul of its infrastructure because of lead-tainted drinking water, ultimately leading to a spike in elevated blood lead levels in thousands of children. Jake May | jmay2@mlive.com
Readers: The 10th anniversary of the Flint water crisis is Thursday, April 25. MLive/The Flint Journal will have full coverage in the coming week, but I’m kicking it off by turning over this week’s column to Journal multimedia specialist Jake May. He not only was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his photography documenting the crisis, he was a resident of the city. In his own words, here is what the past decade has meant to him. – John Hiner, president, MLive.com
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