
After a series of events leading to Flint, Michigan’s toxic water crisis, the federal government has finally stepped in to award the corporate conglomerate Halliburton a contract to remove the lead-tainted water with the intent of selling it to the South Sudanese people.
The African country, riddled with corruption and constant internal welfare, will pay $100 million for the water. Along with tax exemption for their charitable work, Halliburton is receiving $500 million from the US government to get the toxic water off US soil. While the water can be easily treated, Halliburton lobbied for the rights to sell the water untreated.
“We are giving South Sudan a tremendous deal,” said Halliburton marketing director Jim Lahey. “We’ll be breaking even after transportation cost, so you could call it a humanitarian effort.”
The water is toxic to drink but the company said there are many applications for the water. “I wouldn’t recommend drinking the lead water, but lead water is better than no water.
“They can treat the water if they want, and for a modest fee, we can help them do that.”
No Moore Lead
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is outraged by the Halliburton water deal. “So we are going from poisoning our own children to paying a hundred billion dollar company to poison children in Africa. I don’t buy their claim it’s a humanitarian effort and that they won’t be making money from this criminal act. There is plenty of clean water we can send to Sudan through a true philanthropic effort.
“Whenever I think we can’t do anything worse, we top the hell out of ourselves. It’s despicable. I asked a friend from Sudan if he knew the water they were getting was infused with lead and he had no idea. What’s going on here?”