Bottles of Hope: Connecticut Operator Sends Water to Flint

It only takes one person, filled with compassion and ambition, to make a difference. Here's how one operator is helping the people of Flint, Michigan.

May 04, 2016 | by Sharon Verbeten |

Kenneth Hinson Flint Water Crisis — Ken Hinson, a utility operator for The Metropolitan District-Hartford, Connecticut (MDC), started a grass-roots effort to collect cases of bottled water for the people of Flint, Michigan.

“I saw it on the news, and I just needed to do something.”That’s what New Englander Ken Hinson said when he watched recent news coverage of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. And even though the Midwest city is about 700 miles from Hinson’s home in Torrington, Connecticut, the water utility worker felt he had to do something.In late April, he made his mission a reality — he and a busload of more than 50 volunteers caravanned to Flint with three semitrailer loads of fresh bottled water.The inspiration A few months ago, after watching the news about Flint’s water crisis, Hinson,

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