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Miss Michigan Emily Sioma tells OS she used her 10-second introduction at the Miss America competition to draw attention to "something much bigger than herself". She told millions of viewers she was "from the state with 84% of the US fresh water but none for its residents to drink." Flint has been plagued with a deadly water crisis - caused by lead piping - since 2014.

(Photo: Emily Sioma. Credit: Getty Images).