Flint and car industry dirty secrets

The city mayor and city council all Democrats of Flint Michigan decide upon hearing that the Detroit water system would not work with them they would use the Flint River. Financial this will help the city of Flint. Flint then hides 10 deaths from bacteria and lead poisoning for two years. Sounded all good to use the water space without having to think much or spend much money. The issue being that the appropriation of the water caused some side effects such as rusting out of the pipes and required more chemicals to create drinkable water.

That is when the city manager a fellow Democrat got the governor involved. The real question of spatial appropriation is: did the city of Flint own the Flint river and water rights? Let us say they did.

So why is the Flint river water so corrosive? Using salt for desalting the snow on the roads. Because of the use of salt for winter road usage the whole spatial space of water is in question. So who owns the responsibility for using salt for roads in Michigan? Why does Michigan not use sand instead of salt? The civic responsibility who owns the decision to be responsible for citizens?

The government failed to help the people of Flint, the people of Flint failed to pay their water bill to support a water system. Where does the responsibility lie?

Thinking of appropriation and looking into the problem more, the water has an issue that differs from Detroit water. What is that one asks? Salt. What does salt have to do with water?

Salt is used to melt snow on the roads and the runoff water goes directly into the river. So the civic question what I can doused salt instead of sand?

Thinking about this, the car industry owns the rationale for salting the roads versus sanding the roads. Salt is corrosive eating a car within five years is normal life cycle expectation of a car in a state that uses salt versus sand. Because Michigan needs to sell cars, they make the laws to use salt. The rationale to force new cars on the road because of the corrosion of the old cars from the salt. Government’s laws appropriation of a person's car is funny. In the long run, will the response be to change salting the roads to help the general consumer car, or will it be to the tax driven car industry? Thinking about the spatial appropriation of a personal vehicle versus a tax basis law. Who will win?

Repurposing the salt from the roads of Michigan is then the real question to resolve the corrosion of the water system. What can be done to capture the salt prior to the salt entering the river? No solutions come to mind. So then why not use sand? And who owns the salt on the roads, sands, and rivers? Ask the car industry to help with the exchanging of laws to save people’s lives in the city of Flint, Michigan.