The amount of lead in the water supply of major Canadian cities exceeded safe levels in hundreds of thousands of homes, a major investigation has found.

Some areas showed lead levels "similar" to those in the US city of Flint, Michigan, during its 2015 water crisis.

Out of 12,000 samples taken from 2014 to 2018, one third exceeded the national safety guideline of 5 parts per billion (ppb).

Canada has the third-largest per-capita fresh water reserve in the world.

Lead contamination has been linked with low IQ in children, hypertension and heart disease.

In some of its last votes of the year, the U.S. Senate finally approved legislation that will be worth more than $120 million to Flint, Mich., and its effort to respond to an ongoing public health crisis linked to high lead levels in its tap water.

Three people — two officials with the state Department of Environmental Quality and a water official from Flint — are facing criminal charges as a result of an investigation into the lead-contaminated water case in Flint.

The drinking water disaster in Flint, Mich., underscores a lack of transparency in Michigan’s government. But it has also sparked the beginning of meaningful reform, some say.

For Hillary Clinton, the city hosting Sunday’s Democratic debate is a place whose “children were poisoned by toxic water because their governor wanted to save a little money” — but also, she declared on Super Tuesday, “a community that’s been knocked down but refused to be knocked out.”
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Congress might soon take action to help cities avoid another water lead poisoning crisis like the one in Flint, Michigan.

"We make certain promises to people in this country: clean water, safe food and clean air," Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) told "So That Happened," the HuffPost Politics podcast.

The Michigan Republican party would like you to know that Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has been busy trying to heal the city of Flint while the malevolent Obama administration has only stood in the way.

That's the message of an infographic the state party started putting out on social media on Thursday. The light blue water droplets on the left represent actions Snyder has taken

The contamination of water in Flint, Michigan has outraged community advocates. They ask, "Was the city neglected because its mostly black and about 40 poor?"