Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’

The Flint water tower last month. Photograph: Carlos Osorio/AP

Earlier this month, Brittany Thomas received a call that her 11-year-old daughter Janiyah had experienced a seizure at school.

“She’d been seizure-free for about two years now,” said Thomas, a resident of Flint, Michigan. “And they just came back.”