Michael Moore has called out on the public - celebrities, politicians, ordinary citizens and the like - to stop sending bottled waters to Flint, Mich., as he believes that it will not help solve the ongoing crisis.
The filmmaker, himself a native of Flint, called for an upheaval in the state instead of donating more bottles because of the required amount of it needed on a daily basis, the New York Daily News reported.
"You would have to send 200 bottles a day, per person, to cover what the average American (we are Americans in Flint) needs each day," he wrote on his official website on Wednesday.
"That's 102,000 citizens times 200 bottles of water - which equals 20.4 million 16 oz. bottles of water per day, every day, for the next year or two until this problem is fixed."
The filmmaker then suggested that Michigan governor Rick Snyder should be removed from office and put in jail for his "corruption and incompetence." "There is not a terrorist organization on Earth that has yet to figure out how to poison 100,000 people every day for two years - and get away with it," Moore said.
Lead levels in Flint started to rise the moment it shifted its source of water from Lake Huron to Flint River. The shift, experts say, resulted in the increase of lead poisoning because the harsh river scratched off lead from older pipes and entered the drinking supply.
"This is still an issue. It's not going away," chief medical executive Dr. Eden Wells of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said, according to The Detroit News.
