(12/09/16) - A roving protest around Flint to raise awareness of another water issue hundreds of miles away. A small group here to support what thousands of people have been doing for months to stop construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.

The organizer of today's protest lives in Flint and has only watched the protests on TV. But wanted to do more.

For months people have basically taken over Standing Rock in North Dakota to stop the construction of the pipeline.

They say it threatens the water supply to a Native American reservation and sacred land.

Today, about a dozen people took to the street with signs in downtown Flint chanting "water is life."

One of the groups represented is Veterans for Clean Water. Some actually took part in the Standing Rock protest now they're here to show support for Flint too.

"For too long the leaders have allowed this to happen allowed people to go without water and then to make them pay water bills on top of it it's so inhumane I can't even put it into words," said Ryan Mulholland.