FILE - In this May 22, 2018 file photo, Jaden Smith arrives at the 28th Annual EMA Awards at the Montage Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills, Calif. Smith’s foundation and a church are working to bring cleaner water to Flint, Mich.. The rapper’s organization and First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church on Friday, March 1, 2019 announced they’ll deploy a mobile water filtration system known as “The Water Box” that reduces lead and other potential contaminants. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
March 01, 2019 - 6:21 AM
FLINT, Mich. - Jaden Smith's foundation and a church are working to bring cleaner water to Flint, Michigan.
The rapper's organization and First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church on Friday announced they'll deploy a mobile water filtration system known as "The Water Box" that reduces lead and other potential contaminants.
The 20-year-old's JUST goods company collaborated with the church to design and engineer the system. He is the son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith.
The church has distributed over 5 million bottles of water to residents, but bottled water donations are on the decline.
Flint has been replacing water lines after lead-tainted water was discovered in 2014. Lead began leaching from pipes after the city tapped the Flint River for drinking water without properly treating it to reduce corrosion.
News from © The Associated Press, 2019