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Flint protestors demand faster pipe replacement

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A group marched on Governor Rick Snyder’s office today to call for faster work fixing Flint’s water system.

About 50 demonstrators delivered more than 11 hundred empty water bills with messages from Flint residents tucked inside.

Nayyirah Shariff is with the group Flint Rising. She says the demands include picking up the pace of replacing lead pipes, and a moratorium on city water bills until the work is done. Shariff says the process of replacing the water pipes should not take years.

“It has been, like, woefully inadequate and very slow.”

Shariff says Flint residents would also like money to replace appliances damaged by corrosive water. The group met with the governor’s communications director, who told them tests show Flint’s water is now safe to drink.