If this article ( <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/raw-data-lead-poisoning-kids-flint" rel="nofollow">http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/raw-data-lead-...</a> ) is correct, the problem specifically of <i>lead</i> in Flint seems to have been worse throughout the 1990s and most of the 2000s. The recent upward spike only made it as bad as it had been in <i>2010</i>. So should people have been panicked and drinking bottled water there for most of the last 30 years? Or was downplaying the current risk level - in context - kind of reasonable?