As of Tuesday, the city of Flint, Michigan has been without clean water for over three long years.

“The people of Flint have been through hell over the last three years and it’s absolutely disgusting that there has been little change in their daily lives.”
—Lonnie Scott, Progress Michigan

April 24, 2014 was the day that city officials made the disastrous decision to switch the city’s water source to the Flint River, whose polluted water corroded aged lead pipes and poisoned residents’ water with lead.

The city still does not have clean water. Residents must purchase filters to reduce the lead in their water, and the city says it will be three more years before all of the city’s lead pipes are replaced, according to NPR.

Local ten-year-old water activist Amariyanna Copeny, better known as Little Miss Flint, filmed a video for Teen Vogue this week in which she demonstrates how difficult it is to cook dinner with bottled water—a reality for many Flint residents:

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver is now recommending that the city switch to Detroit’s water supply, which Flint was doing before April 2014.

At the meeting last week where Weaver announced her recommendation, police ended up arresting six people after arguments broke out. “Residents peppered officials with questions about bacteria, the long-term medical impact of the water supply, and medical support for those potentially contaminated with lead, and how they can ever trust the government again,” reported MLive.

“I’m so scared,” one Flint resident commented to the New York Times about the water. “There’s nothing we can do about it. I don’t know if I would let [my children] drink the water ever again.”