“Nestle in Michigan” is a video clip on YouTube about the Nestle corporations bottled water plants with a primary focus being on the plant located in Stanwood, Michigan (Menzies, 2010). Nestle has a 99 year lease on property that only cost them $63,000, “they received $10 million in tax abatements”, and they are pumping water at a rate of 218 gallons per minute (down from the original 450 gallons per minute) (Menzies, 2010). In other words, Nestle is pumping dangerously large amounts of water that is free to them as property owners, selling it for a profit, and not being subjected to the same tax as other land owners.…
Flint, Michigan as of today is going through a crisis. Contaminated water has polluted the cities’ tap water. This incident consequently caused the city so much money and problems for the people especially such as health problems. This disaster is from the exposure of amount of lead that the water became poisoned with.…
A wise man once said , “ It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument”. According to the article, “ How Tap Water Became Toxic in flint, Michigan “ , by Sara Ganim and Linh Tran they discuss the problem with residents from Michigan unable to obtain clean fresh water. It has left the majority of residents furious and left many with unanswered questions. Such as, when will they have healthy safe water and when will they receive clean water for the money they are paying for? However, while the mayor is ignoring the problem the residents who reside in Michigan are being affected with having health issues.…
Can you imagine getting lead poisoning from drinking what you may think is clean, filtered water? Well, that is exactly what is going on in Flint. The amount of lead found in this water is harming children and adults. Even the color doesn’t seem look right, I mean, why is this water brown? And why does it smell and taste awful? The Flint Michigan water crisis has gotten out of control and has been for the past couple of years. In class, we were showed a mini documentary on how bad this situation has gotten since the start of it in April 2014. The good news is that more attention has been brought to this and we want to see change soon for the sake of the people of Flint. According to the film, lead poisoning can bring many health problems and…
The Flint River Water Crisis began in 2014. When Flint Michigan water supply was changed to the Flint River. Due to Bad water over 100,000 residents were exposed to lead. In the winter of 2016 a federal state of emergency was issued. Residents were instructed to only use bottled or filtered water. In the early 2017 the water quality started rising. Even though it was safe to drink the residents were still being instructed to use bottled water till the lead pipes have been replaced. It is expected to be safe around 2020…
Even after General Motors, a massive corporation whose roots are deeply embedded in the Flint community, stopped using Flint River water due to its corrosive nature, the government neglected to take action. My grandfather worked for General Motors in the mid-1900s and growing up, I remember the passion he had for the company that helped make Flint what it is today, but it did not seem to sway the city’s actions. The government’s actions also seemed to ignore the socio-economic status of a large portion of Flint residents. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, roughly 41.2% of Flint residents are in poverty. Nevertheless, the city suggested that the residents buy bottled water to drink and bath until the water was safe, a practically infeasible task for many. In a country founded on democratic values, the government should be considerate of their people’s opinions and exercise their power to keep the citizens safe and healthy; however, clearly this was not the case in…
The president’s declaration was issued even as evidence mounted that officials in the state’s government had willfully and knowingly allowed tens of thousands of Flint residents to consume poisoned water for more than a year.” I can only imagine the things people have to go through on a daily basis to live without clean water. Not only did people lose out on water which is something we use everyday. We use water to bathe, wash, cook and to do a lot of important every day activities. Over 5000 children were exposed to high levels of lead and can result in major health problems. You would think it would be easy for people to up and move but people were not prepared for this. Kid have to change schools, adults have to find new jobs. Most people don’t have savings put up for a complete relocation. Another alternative for people would be to sale their homes but no person in the world would buy property in flint right…
On January 16, 2016, President Barack Obama declared the city of Flint, Michigan to be in a state of emergency due to the widespread lead poisoning of the city’s residents that later became known as the Flint Water Crisis (Southall 2016). The crisis began in April of 2014, when the officials of Flint decided that, in an effort to conserve dwindling funds, the city would switch their main water source from Lake Huron, to the Flint River (Southall 2016).…
A problem like this, that is so widespread and detrimental to the public’s health, needs to be brought out into the open. Next, they can switch the city’s water source to a safe reliable source. Water is a necessity for all life, and the people of Flint cannot continue to live off of bottled water. There needs to be a permanent solution to this problem. The last thing I believe government officials can do to reverse this crisis is to offer free healthcare to the people of Flint, Michigan. Lead poisoning can have detrimental effects on the body. Fixing or caring for these problems would be costly for a majority of the public, since the city of Flint has poverty issues. The government can pay for the people’s healthcare, if they needed it because of lead poisoning effects. The citizens of Flint should not suffer any longer than they have been, as a result of the government’s…
The Flint Water Crisis began with a decision about cost as many poor ethical decisions are. Flint wanted to switch from Detroit water to the Karegnondi Water Authority (KWA) and enlisted ROWE Professional Services to facilitate this transition. The switch was said to be more reliable, equal in quality, and reduced in price compared to Detroit water (Connexions, 2013). And in order to save about $5 million in the two years that it would take to switch to the KWA, the city decided to treat water from the Flint River for use. This decision may have been made with the best of intentions as Flint is working towards a comeback, but what resulted led to great controversy.…
Environmental health in this country should not be based on race or wealth. Yet, prior to the change in water source, these same neighborhoods in Flint have already seen their children’s blood lead levels higher than those in surrounding cities. Factors including dilapidated housing, fewer water samples tested, lack of preventative maintenance to support corrosion control, and fewer children getting the screenings they need due to lack of funding. Consequently, lower income families are found to have been the most vulnerable population hit by this crisis. As stated in our own Environmental Health text book, “The concept of environmental justice denotes the equal treatment of all people in society irrespective of their racial background, country of origin, and socioeconomic status” (Friis, 2012, p.…
Flint is most definitely not a small city. That means that there are many people who need water and aren’t getting…
The topic I would like to write about is a current event. This current event is the Flint, Michigan water crisis. My present assumption about the Flint, Michigan water crisis comes from what I see in the media and what I was taught in school. This assumptions is that water in Flint, Michigan contains a high percentage of lead concentration. I am not actually sure of the percentage but I know that no amount of the lead should in water. Lead should not be present in water because lead can hurt the human body. I remember learning about a set of twins living in Flint, Michigan. One of the twins became noticeably smaller than the other twin. After the mom took the twins to the doctor, she discover the smaller one failed to grow as fast as his twin…
The flint rivers reputation has drastically grown more and more dreadful. From its toxic substances in the 1970's to its lead contamination today, this river continues to be deemed severely unpleasant by many. Flint, Michigan is enduring major water-related issues. Although it is an extremely dire situation, there are still a couple of possible solutions to resolve this lead-contaminated water dilemma. The Flint water crisis is an environmental issue.…
In the United States, it is safe to say that a lot of us take our lives for granted. Very few Americans ever worry about the water we drink, or the amount of water we use while taking a shower. If you don't like tap water, you can just go buy bottled water at the store. The choice is yours. Depending on your choice, you can take a five minute, or an hour long shower. There's even a water temperature control provided for you. Showers are taken in clean, sanitized bathrooms. Although taking a shower, or drinking from a water bottle don't sound like such a big deal, thousands of people living in poor conditions with dirty water, and without proper sanitation, consider you lucky. Unlike us who do have clean water and sanitation, and the opportunity…