Essay On Social Media

The people of Flint did not keep their mouths shut when they seen all the worrisome problems that popped up. Flint can thank one woman in particular for bringing the nation’s attention to what was happening. LeeAnne Walters is a thirty-seven year old mother of four who was not going to sit around while her family was withering away. She knew there was a serious problem not being dealt with in the summer of 2014. Her three-year-old twins got a rash when they had a bath. She could no longer leave them in the tub to soak. One of her twins had extreme reactions to the water. Gavin’s skin would become scaly and red where the water line stopped. Later her water turned brown and her family avoided tap water as much as possible. The twins got a bath in bottled water each week and bath with baby wipes the other days. Over time, the symptoms slowly disappeared (Lurie). Simple tasks like brushing their teeth, bathing, and cooking were incredibly complicated and expensive. Gavin and Garrett were not the only ones being affected. Her son had numerous trips to the hospital for abdominal pain, all the members of her family were losing hair, and at one point she lost her eyelashes. In January 2015, Flint declared that the city's water had dangerous levels of trihalomethanes. That came from the disinfectant that was supposed to treat the water. Exposure to these chemicals can cause liver, kidney, and nervous system

In April of 2014 Flint, Michigan started to get their water from the Flint River rather than the Detroit river that was formerly used as the main water source in hopes of saving money. The water being provided has been classified by Flint residents as smelly and murky and is avoided at all costs. It has also been discovered to cause damage to the lead pipes that transported it throughout the city. Children have been found to have high levels of lead in their blood and this may be the cause of an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease which has killed 10 people in the Flint area. People have also reported rashes from the dirty water. Video news interviews show residents holding water that is

When people who lived in the city say they realized something was wrong the big guys kept saying there was nothing wrong and put it off for a whole month. President Obama had to claim a federal state of emergency on Flint, Michigan in 2014 because of the water that has been polluted by toxins and lead, but by the time the city officials realized something was wrong the pipes were already in too much damage (Kennedy/ npr). The City of flint is forty percent poor African American people, and this has put them in a giant crisis and when everything went down the people of Flint, Michigan went on strike (Kennedy/ npr). The polluted water was not fixed until April 6, 2018, this crisis lasted over four

Secondly, water pollution is contaminating the fresh water supply across the nation. The city of Flint, Michigan serves as a cautionary tale about how misusing water and power can prevent people from receiving a clean glass of water. In 2014, The city of Flint switched its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, while a new pipeline was being built connecting the two bodies of water. This gave the city a chance to save money despite the fact there were previous records of the river being contaminated. That same year, after the switch, the city had to issue a boil water advisory twice and a General Motors plant stop using city water because it was corroding engine parts. Finally, in January 2015, the city notifies residents that the

The inaccessibility of clean water has burdened Flint Michigan in recent years; however it is not algal bloom or overflowing sewers that has contaminated local water sources, rather it is highly corrosive water that destroyed old lead pipes. Flint, Michigan is located a little over an hour north of the lively city of Detroit. Flint’s population totals around 100,000 citizens. This city has attracted nationwide attention, in the last few years, as economic despair and widespread water contamination continues to burden the suburb to this day. Economic tension in Flint surfaced in 2011, when the state’s auditing determined that Flint was buried by economic ruin: precisely a $25 million deficit. As a result, in April of 2015, the water supply

coli was also found in the town’s water supply and residents were advised to to boil their water before using it. Because of extremely unsafe and tainted water, Flint was found to have violated the Safe Water Drinking Act. In February of 2015, the water has been found containing high amounts of lead, “...with a lead content of 104 parts per billion. Fifteen parts per billion is the limit for lead in drinking water." Residents start to complain of lead poisoning and many fall sick. The water now being considered “hazardous waste.” Despite being told this, officials deny that there is anything wrong with the water and insist that a standard water filter makes the water safe to use. Karen Weaver, mayor of Flint, declares a state of emergency. President Barack Obama chimes in and also declares a state of emergency and FEMA is sent in as well as Federal funding to pay for clean water supplies. Criminal charges are filed against three officials: Stephen Busch, Michael Prysby, and Michael Glasgow. The three are charged with misconduct, neglect of duty and conspiracy to tamper with evidence, and have been charged with violating Michigan's Safe Drinking Water Act. An additional six officials are later charged, as well as two corporations who were in charge of water quality

Imagine being informed that the water with which you bathe, brush your teeth, and cook is the root of many serious and sometimes fatal health problems. Sadly, this is the case for a majority of the citizens in Flint, Michigan. According to an online article titled “This is how toxic Flint’s water really is,” by reporter Christopher Ingraham, the culprit is high concentrations of lead that have leached into tap water from lead-containing pipe systems and fixtures as they slowly corrode. The article also informs that although nearly all citizens were exposed to the hazardous water, some exposures were found to be worse than others (Ingraham). Additionally Ingraham states “A group of Virginia Tech researchers who sampled the water in 271 Flint homes last summer found some contained lead levels high enough to meet the EPA 's definition of ‘toxic waste." With lead being the culprit, and nearly all citizens being exposed to the contaminated water, Flint has found itself in a near epidemic.

For the past three years Flint, Michigan has been making headlines due to what seems like a never-ending water crisis. One day their water seems to be just fine, but then all of a sudden it’s contaminated and dirty; full of lead and fecal particles which will slowly begin to harm more people than imaginable. Hospital admissions skyrocket, school attendance numbers began to drop, and more and more adults are calling off of work because they’ve fallen ill. People begin to go without showers to help keep them “safe” from contamination, bottled water is now being used for not only drinking but also showering, mixing baby formulas, watering plants, etc. Major cost-cutting measures led to contaminated drinking water, lifelong health effects, and

In April of 2014 Flint Michigan endured one of the deadliest crisis that hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina. It was later called “The Flint Water Crisis”, it made headlines everywhere including hashtags on social media and it also got the the attention of celebrities which spread the news all over. It also became one of the

Imagine living in an area where tap water looked darker than a glass of cola. Imagine living in an area where water that looked and smelled like sewage earned the name of “the most expensive water in the nation.” Imagine living in an area where poisoned and carcinogenic water was unwittingly being sold to residents. This is what the residents of Flint, Michigan have, and are still, facing since 2014. Flint, Michigan, a city earning fourth place on “America’s Most Dangerous Cities” by Forbes.com, is facing trouble distributing clean water to residents, something many Americans take for granted. After a cost-cutting switch from water sources, residents have been bombarded with various health and financial damages.

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan shocked and outraged many Americans. It was true, a simple water source change from one source to another in the city of Flint turned into a State of Emergency as declared by the governor. Toxic water from the Flint River had filtered into thousands of homes in the town near Detroit. Keeping lead out of the drinking water is something modern society view as a fundamental and common sense action. As such, countless citizens wondered how something like this could ever happen in the United States. Indeed, the missteps by the city of Flint, Michigan must be examined in terms of both decision-making and chemistry in order to make appropriate adjustments for the future.

The Flint, Michigan water crisis is one of the worst water contamination crises to exist in the United States today. In April of 2014, in order to save money, the city of Flint began to draw water from the local river instead of purchasing Lake Huron water from Detroit. The residents noticed that the physical appearance in the quality of water was poor. The water had an odd and questionable colors of shades of blue, green, beige, brown, and yellow. The smell resembled that of gasoline or fish. After consuming the water, residents began to notice burning skin, rashes hand tremors, hair loss, and even seizures. The contaminated water affected nearly 100,000 people and four years later, the problems still exist even with funded projects to resolve

The Flint water crisis began in Flint, Michigan. This crisis began on April 25, 2014, and this event is still going on as a big issue. All the problems started when the Flint Government officials decided to switch from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, to their own Flint River. They originally wanted to switch to the Karegnondi Water Authority, but that would take approximately 25 years, and would cost $200 million dollars. So until then, they decided to use the Flint River as a local water resource. The water in the Flint River was contaminated with lead and other types of injurious toxins. ¨Lead leached from old pipes into the water supply, and in some homes, lead levels measured 10 times higher than the limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency¨ (Julia Franz, 3). In addition, according to A Step-By-Step Look At The Makings Of A Crisis, a study from the local Hurley Medical Center found that 2.1 percent of children age 5 and under had elevated blood lead levels prior to the switch to Flint River water, but then the number drastically changed to 4% of the children under the age of 5 after the switch. This means that because of the Flint River, lead levels in water and people’s bodies, changed into a hazardous number. The unpurified and contaminated water that the residents drank formed their health to get worse. In

It began sometime in April 2014, Flint, Michigan city officials changed the water supply from Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to Flint River. The water in the Flint River has long suffered from contamination, in the seventies, the river was severely degraded, due to numerous containments such as fecal coliform bacteria, oils, and toxic substances (Library, 2016). Water quality has since improved, however, the needed procedures were not done in order to secure the water supply from contamination during the transition of water supply change. Despite the transition, reports from some employees the use of the contaminated water continued until mass new reports of the impurity of the water. Along with the damages that occurred from the contaminated water, a growing number of government employees and officials currently are facing scrutiny and possible criminal charges from the decisions made during the management of the new water supply.

For decades, Flint got its water from Detroit Water but in 2013, the Flint city council in order to save money decided to switch the city’s water supply from Lake Huron for which they paid $21 million in 2011 to the Flint river. The switch was made during a state of financial emergency and was supposed to be a cost-cutting maneuver aimed at saving $5 million over a two year period. But once the change was made the water started to smell and taste funny. There was a lack of an effective quality management system approach for changing the water supply as the employees of public water system are supposed to monitor the lead level in water by testing the water in the lead service lines, but Flint quality management failed to do so. Flint had commissioned an evaluation of the river water they were going to use and the results indicated that it would be needed to treat with phosphates to reduce its corrosiveness and this information was forwarded to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), which is responsible for ensuring that Flint follows the Safe Drinking Water Act. but MDEQ didn’t do its job. Also, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality downplayed the complaints made by the residents and the water crisis played out in sight for months and the state refused to acknowledge it