Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should feel like he is in the eye of the storm — and in the crosshairs of state and federal investigators — when it comes to the appalling ongoing crisis of poisoned water in Flint.

Last week, the myopic governor had the nerve to tell Flint residents that they should use more filtered water from Flint’s public tap and less bottled water. 

The response?

He was told by a state official that Flint residents wanted him to start drinking the tap water first.

So on Tuesday, the mad governor announced he would drink the city’s water for the next 30 days, proving that filtered tap water from Flint’s water system is safe to drink.

We believe Gov. Snyder doesn’t need to risk further cognitive damage by imbibing the Flint water that is still laced with lead, a contaminant proven to cause brain and physical damage to children and older adults, including skin rashes, hair loss, lowered IQs and behavioral problems. We believe that any public official who would knowingly allow a municipality to switch its water supply to a poisonous product to save money already is suffering from mental and ethical impairment.

On Wednesday, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced that three public officials had been indicted on criminal charges in the debacle. The list does not include Gov. Snyder.

That’s too bad.

If Gov. Snyder wants to set an example by drinking tainted Flint water, then let him set the example for public officials by standing up and being held accountable for making decisions that deliberately brought harm to thousands of men, women and children.

We hope he will be indicted in the near future.