Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, whose approval ratings evaporated over the Flint water crisis, this week pledged to drink filtered Flint water for the next month.

For months now, the AP has been valiantly searching for a stretch of Rio water that’s not contaminated by trash, sewage and flesh-eating bacteria and so far—nothing.

A man who was once convicted of poisoning a group of children because they allegedly bullied his son was, until this week, in charge of the drinking water for a much larger group of people: the citizens of the city of North Las Vegas, who probably, most likely, had nothing to worry about.

For nearly two weeks, authorities have scurried to deal with the toxic spill of a coal-cleaning chemical that's left 300,000 West Virginians without tap water. But the company running the spill site shocked officials yesterday by disclosing that the spill included a second, little-known chemical.

State inspectors say that Freedom Industries, the chemical company that poisoned the water supply of 300,000 West Virginians last week, has been improperly storing the same chemicals at a second site.