By Katrina Tulloch

The Italian American Athletic Club of Syracuse has donated 500 cases of water to the people of Flint, Michigan. News of the Flint water crisis broke in 2015, but Anthony Catania, the treasurer of the IAAC, hadn't heard about it until he saw Flint residents on the "Steve Harvey Show" last spring.

"People from Flint were telling how the government told them everything was fine, that they could drink and shower with the water," said Catania. "Now, there are kids breaking out in rashes. It wasn't a pretty story." It's now widely known that high levels of lead in the Flint water system had been poisoning residents for months, while the government turned a blind eye.

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Source: http://www.syracuse.com/