Michigan Town Struggles With Lead-Contaminated Water

Aging infrastructure in Benton Harbor, Michigan has caused residents to line up to pick up bottled water from distribution sites every week.

Residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan all have a similar question.

"I wonder how much I've taken in already, as far as lead and stuff like that," resident Trinerty Thompson said.

Since the end of September, people in the predominately black community in southwestern Michigan have been lining up on a weekly basis to pick up bottled water at distribution sites around town. This came after residents had finally put enough pressure on state and local officials to start addressing water tests from three years earlier that had found alarmingly high levels of lead in the town's water.