Water is something that we take for granted every day. It seems like something that should be a necessity. We use it for brushing our teeth, showering, cooking and drinking. Having running water is something that I take for granted.

In the city of Flint, water is contaminating around 100,000 residents with lead. Lead poisoning is not something Flint residents should have to worry about. It isn't something that anyone should have to worry about. However, with the oversight from Governor Rick Snyder and his workers, this is happening.

After switching from Lake Huron to the Flint River as a water supply, the lead contamination is not something that is an easy thing to take care of. With the extreme elevated levels of lead, a serious public health danger has been created. This has lead to the inability for residents to do all the small things that require water, and those small things add up to be a big issue.

Looking at the big picture, the contamination has been known about since April 2014 and nothing had started to change until recently. Waiting for such a long period of time has exposed much of the population to a danger that could be irreversible. Lead poisoning can effect people in several different ways, some of them being memory loss, slowed development and possibly death if left untreated.

This situation shouldn't just lead people to be concerned about Flint, but about everything that is happening within our government. If this is something that is able to happen, and go unnoticed for months, what else could we not know about? It is our job as citizens to continually check in on what is happening in our country, state or city. Not only that, it is our job to investigate what is happening around us daily.

The Flint water crisis should be teaching everyone a few lessons, one of the most important being that we really can't take anything for granted, because before we know it, we could lose something as important as water.