The end of the state supplying free bottled water for the people of Flint did more than just anger them.
It left those with limited means wondering what to do now.
"It breaks my heart.
What am I going to do," said Nancy Pfaff, Flint resident.
She is confused, upset and worried about how she’s going to get clean water now that the city’s bottle distribution sites have run dry.
"I need somebody to bring water to my home," Pfaff said.
She lives alone and is on a fixed income.
She has a broken shoulder, other health issues and no transportation.
"I just don’t trust it.
I will never ever drink Flint water," Pfaff said.

FLINT, MI — A top aide to Rick Snyder says he told the governor that bottled water was "no longer needed" in Flint because of improvements in tap water quality.
Rich Baird, transformation manager for the state, told city church leaders in an April 6 letter that Flint water quality was stable and "well below federal action levels for nearly two years."
State-recognized testing shows lead levels have been below the federal action limit of 15 parts per billion in Flint since the first half of 2016.
"As a result of the data and monitoring results, I recommended to the governor that bottled water provisions in Flint are no longer needed," says Baird’s letter, which was written the same day Snyder shared similar news with Mayor Karen Weaver.
Snyder has agreed to meet with Weaver to discuss her objections to the end of state-funded bottled water — a face-to-face session that’s expected to occur next week.
The mayor’s office said in an email to MLive-The Flint Journal that Weaver plans to discuss "many vital issues facing the Flint community and what can be done to help residents progress as the recovery process continues."
Baird’s letter to Flint church leaders says the city’s future requires "much more than confidence in water quality."
Flint church leaders, particularly the Concerned Pastors for Social Action, have been key players in responding to the water crisis, filing a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union and others against the state, and distributing faucet filters before state government recognized the water emergency.
The Rev.
Alfred Harris, president of the group, said the state’s decision to cut off bottled water is in compliance with a settlement agreement between the pastors and the state but still leaves residents with water that may not be safe to drink.

(News 12 at 11) AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT)– The water crisis is inconvenient for families and it’s not good for businesses around Waynesboro.
Some restaurants are having to cook with bottled water.
Burke perk is just one of several restaurants trying to stay open to serve their customers.
Many places bought bottled water, plastic silverware and paper plates just to keep everything sanitary.
The owner at Brown’s Quality Seafood is doing all she can to stay open.
Burke Perk and Brown’s both found a way to keep their doors open.
"We probably bought and had on hand about 25 gallons to start off with," Barton said.
They’re using bottled and gallon water to both cook and serve as drinking water.
Other local favorites like Good Day Cafe and Lakeview Restaurant are closed.
Brown’s Quality Seafood is trying to stay open, but will have to make a run for more water.

FLINT, MI – Less than 24 hours after the closure of the city’s last four water distribution sites, more than 50 Flint-area residents filled two buses to protest at the state capitol in Lansing.
"It is unacceptable that people are still unaware that the water is not safe despite what the MDEQ says," said LaShaya Darisaw, Flint organizing director with Michigan United.
"If you saw some of the water PODS, people were afraid.
We’re in fear.
They went into instant survival mode, and that’s not OK. "We’re living in America and people were desperately trying to get bottles of water.
This is not a third world country.
It’s 2018, and nobody should be feeling like that, especially not caused by our own government."
State officials say water testing in the city has shown a decrease of lead for nearly two years.
Flint’s supply of bottled water has been an issue since Gov.
Rick Snyder recognized lead contamination in the city’s water system in January 2016.

“We want to continue to meet the needs of the community by giving them bottled water until this crisis is over,” said Kim Murdough, with West Court Street Church of God.
Murdough is not happy about the state closing water distribution sites across the city.
She said while she doesn’t agree with the state’s decision, her church is stepping up to make sure everyone has safe water after the state steps out.
We already distributed food to the community.
This is an ongoing thing we will do,” Murdough said.
Murdough and church members said they can’t do it alone and are now accepting donations to make sure there is enough water to keep going.
Because it hasn’t been fully resolved.
Because our neighbors come first,” Murdough said.
She is confident enough people will support the effort until all of the lead service lines are replaced in the city.
However long that takes.

Experts say Flint’s water supply is now safe to drink.
"All the parameters are showing that Flint water is in the range of other cities with old pipes," says Marc Edwards, a water treatment expert.
The federal action level for lead is 15 parts per billion.
Recent state tests show lead levels in the drinking water here now at about four parts per billion.
State officials say any remaining lead can be screened out using water filters, which the state will continue to provide free to Flint residents.
"If we want people to be confident in the water that they are getting out of their taps, we can’t say that in one breathe and then in another one say, ‘Oh but here’s bottled water that you can have if you want,’" Adler says.
Trust in short supply The state has distributed millions of cases of bottled water, at a cost of $22,000 a day.
Though Flint residents, such as LaShaya Darisaw, still don’t trust the water is safe to drink.
Darisaw and some Flint residents will travel to the state capitol tomorrow to urge state officials to keep distributing bottled water until all the city’s old lead pipes are replaced.
But time is short, the supply of free bottled water is expected to run out this week.

Despite the advisory — which orders Stuart water customers to boil their water before using it for drinking and cooking — some local businesses and restaurants are continuing to use the water.
"As long as you run the lines … for five minutes, everything’s fine," Justin Bauman, kitchen manager at Stuart Coffee Company, said Tuesday morning.
More: Stuart water customers could be on boil-water notice for the rest of the week Several downtown business owners called City Hall Tuesday morning to report they’d been told by a "site inspector" that the water was safe.
"We did everything we had to do to get everything safe again.” Hogarth said the city likely would have an update Tuesday night, but could not estimate when the advisory would be lifted.
Stuart’s water system may have become contaminated Monday morning after a generator malfunction at the water-treatment plant, according to the city.
"Regardless of what FPL did, the cause of the failure is an electrical breaker causing the generator to fail," Peters said in an email.
More: How’s the water?
(Photo: LEAH VOSS/TCPALM) At Luna restaurant, manager Tim Horton said workers took “all appropriate measures.” Horton said the boil-water advisory was “precautionary,” not mandatory.
India Palace patron Tom Tarsia was having a lunch of chicken tandoori, goat curry and a large glass of water.
Tarsia said he was unaware of the boil-water notice.

Michigan will no longer provide Flint residents free bottled water because lead levels in the city’s water supply have not exceeded federal limits for two years and are now comparable or better than lead levels in other Michigan cities, Republican Gov.
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"Since Flint’s water is now well within the standards set by the federal government, we will now focus even more of our efforts on continuing with the health, education and economic development assistance needed to help move Flint forward.
I remain steadfast in that commitment."
City officials, including Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, took issue with the decision.
Contractors are currently working to change all of the water lines identified for replacement after the city’s water crisis by 2020.
"Additionally, the medical community has continuously raised questions as to how special populations, including nursing and bottle-feeding mothers, will receive bottled water while massive pipe replacement work is ongoing."
Over the weekend, long lines of residents looking to claim the remaining free water formed outside these centers, which have been distributing water to residents since January 2016, according to the Times.
The Mayor’s office said April 6 it anticipated the remaining supply of free bottled watered would be completely depleted over the weekend.
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Originally published on NRDC.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder today announced that the state would stop providing free bottled water to Flint residents.
Flint’s tap water contamination crisis was created by city and state government decisions that caused lead to leach out from aging pipes into Flint homes.
The following is the reaction of Erik Olson, Director of Health for the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The people of Flint deserve better.
It’s deeply troubling that the state is willing to give free water to Nestle and other corporations but not its own people, who they poisoned.” Background: In January 2016, NRDC and its local partners sued the City of Flint and Michigan state officials, seeking to secure safe drinking water for Flint residents.
Fourteen months later, the government agreed to replace lead service lines and institute a transparent and effective lead-monitoring system.
These worries are especially acute in the wake of the Legionella outbreak that reportedly contributed to a dozen or more deaths and has been linked by experts to Flint’s tap water.
Earlier this week the state of Michigan greenlighted Nestle’s permit to pump 500,000 gallons of Michigan groundwater per day at virtually no cost for its bottled water business.
Yet days later the state announced it would no longer give Flint residents safe bottled water.
Additional Resources: NRDC: Flint Water Crisis Sponsored

It’s been another day of long lines at water distribution centers in Flint.
Cars and trucks started lining up after Governor Snyder announced last week that the state will stop providing city residents with free bottled water.
The state started handing out cases of water to city residents two years ago after tests showed elevated levels of lead in Flint’s tap water.
The governor insists tests show Flint’s drinking water is now well within state and federal standards.
Nevertheless, many residents still fear their tap water is contaminated with lead and other substances.
LaShaya Darishaw is among a group of activists who are demanding the governor reverse his decision.
“It is not right that the people that we put in office are not standing up for what we need,” says Darishaw.
The activists plan to go to the state capitol this week to protest the decision to end bottled water distribution in Flint.
The same week the governor ended bottled water distribution in Flint, the Snyder administration approved a controversial permit allowing Nestle to extract 576,000 gallons of water each day from the White Pine Springs, nearly double its previous pumping limit.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality approved the permit despite astronomical public opposition to the request.