Ground Water Contamination and Household Response in Missouri

Many Ohio residents believe that the groundwater is safe to drink, but our experiments suggest that there are high levels of chemical X in the Ohio groundwater.

All the inhabitants of Flint communities regardless of their location had irreversible, permanent brain damage due to lead-contaminated water. It started when traces of E. coli and total coliform were found in the Flint River. The city addressed this problem by increasing chlorine levels in the water, causing the pipes to corrode, releasing lead into the waters. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) were also formed in the water (they are carcinogenic to humans).TTHM is a disinfection byproduct that occur when chlorine interacts with organic matter in the water. At this stage, The lead levels in the water was 13,200 ppb. Water is considered hazardous waste at 5,000ppb (NPR 2016). This tragedy goes to show that this toxic runoff, or even the miss-handling of the water resources in a watershed can affect everyone as the downstream water was piped up into the upstream communities.

Would you drink, and bathe in the water coming out of that tap? The word no is what every sensible human would say when seeing this orange colored liquid. Unfortunately, residents in Flint Michigan are having toxic water like that, running through their pipes and there is one major problem... It’s too late to fix it. How did this happen? How poisonous is the water and what are the effects of it?

Texas, with its abundances of natural resources, is facing a new demon, one that doesn’t even seem possible, a shortage of water. Water, without it nothing can survive. Texas is the second largest state for landmass in the nation and ninth for water square miles. Within the borders of Texas are more than 100 lakes, 14 major rivers, and 23 aquifers, so why has water become such an important issue for the state? Politicians and conservationists all agree that without a new working water plan, the state could be facing one of the most damaging environmental disasters they have ever seen. The issues that shape the states positions are population growth, current drought conditions, and who actually owns the water.

Resident Bethany Hazard states that when she filled up her water from the faucet it came out not only brown but smelling of a sewer (Semuels). The river itself has been a source of considerable pollution with a dead body being found in the river in addition to an abandoned car as well as abnormally high levels of trihamlomethanes, and copper (Semuels). The mere fact, however, that such findings were only accidentally leaked underscores a lack of concern for the safety of Flint’s residents. The first tests on the water confirmed that indeed, something was quite wrong. The Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, leaked in a memo that in the water were trace amounts of the E. Coli bacteria, a serious health hazard for people of all ages

In January of 2015, Flint was found to be in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act after disinfection byproducts were detected at alarming rates (NPR, 2016). Water was somehow still deemed safe for consumption, as the city was very passive in its advisories. Although E. coli, coliform bacteria, and disinfection byproducts were very serious and harmful substances found in the water supply, they would not be the main issue.

Research question: How much nitrate is tap water and in well’s? A environmental issue: The water contamination in Flint,Michigan. The connection between the two is The water is Michigan had some nitrates in there wells. “Nearly two years ago, the state decided to save money by switching Flint's water supply from Lake Huron (which they were paying the city of Detroit for), to the Flint River, a notorious tributary that runs through town known to locals for its filth.According to a class-action lawsuit, the state Department of Environmental Quality wasn't treating the Flint River water with an anti-corrosive agent, in violation of federal law. Therefore, the water was eroding the iron water mains, turning water brown. But in August,

The dust settled as the last vehicle departed the newly established ghost town. What was once a bustling rural community in eastern Colorado, complete with a school and church, and businesses off the main street, has become deserted due to a lack of water. This has become an all too familiar scene in rural communities across Colorado as the increasing demand for water and the dwindling water supply pits water users against one another. The state’s free market style of appropriating water, known as prior appropriation, allows for this highly competitive, and often detrimental situation to persist. As climate change and population growth continue to strain the water supply in Colorado, it will be necessary to adjust the strict prior appropriation

Imagine life without water, what affects do you think will come? Water is not only an important source of nature but a  necessity to living life through human society. Our group believe in the importance of water and realize that without Central Arkansas Water the future for our area would lack in a necessity in daily living. We wanted to know more about the complications CAW experiences, the current improvements to the system, and the future plans that will lead Central Arkansas to a new level of water enterprise. In the water sector of Infrastructure there are many important sub-sector to the transportation of water, but water treatment is the most important in our Central Arkansas area.

The states of Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio are mainly known for their auto industries, but automobiles aren’t the only thing these states specialize in. For starters, Michigan has a growing industry in technology. Technology just happened to be one of the top five industries fueling Michigan’s economy. This industry is supported by their unrivaled epic center for research and development. The research and development center is where work is directed towards the innovation, introduction, and improvement of products and processes. When dealing with technology, water technology is a necessity because it aids greatly in Michigan’s ever improving agricultural industry. The agricultural industry brings in $101billion to Michigan’s economy which

I live in Howard County, Missouri. More specifically Fayette, Missouri. We get our water from Thomas Hill PWSD out of Moberly, MO, which is about 30 miles from my home. The Thomas Hill District supplies water many towns north of Fayette, including Salisbury, Huntsville, Rennick, Clark, Higbee and up to the Boone County boarder. The source of Thomas Hills water supply of “drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and groundwater wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally-occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity”(thomashillpwsd.com).

When the solution of water, chemicals, proppants, and sand leak into the ground, it can contaminate ground water (Fracking Fury). The mix of chemicals the workers use can be very toxic to any living thing. The mix does not only poison the water, but contaminate it so severe that it cannot even be cleaned in a water treatment plant (Fracking Explained). To further the chance of this happening the drillers, by law are required to leave a variable amount of the toxic liquid in the hole and seal it up (fracking good idea?). Leaving it miles deep in the earth to poison our ground water. The chemicals do not only pollute the water we drink, but also the air we

The Denver Basin aquifer framework is a noteworthy wellspring of water for South Metro Denver. The system extends from Colorado Springs in the south to Greeley in the north, from the foothills close Golden in the west toward the eastern fields close Limon, a surface locale of around 6,700 square miles. It joins four aquifers: the Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills. Each aquifer has different water quality, profundities, and water availability (CFWE, 2002).

A water quality statement released by Liesl Kenney, Public Relations Director for Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows is addressing reports of E. coli and coliform bacteria. The harmful bacteria, detected in the potable water supply at Squaw Valley forced High Camp and Gold Coast restaurants on the upper mountain to close their doors.

In waterborne outbreaks the pathogen does not always have to come from drinking the contaminated water because many different disease-causing microbes can be found in a tiny sample of unsafe water (4(pg.4)). Safe water can be limited once a natural disaster happens, and unsafe water, filled with disease causing microbes, is lurking all around. The disease most commonly associated with the consumption of unsafe water is the diarrheal disease, which can be caused by a few different microbes. Most cases of diarrheal disease outbreaks have been recorded after flooding. It is believed that flooding causes the disease, but in reality, the disease is caught by the consumption of the contaminated water (1(pg.2)). Even though floods are the main source of the disease, earthquakes and population displacement can also be a cause (2(pg.6)). One incident in Indonesia after a tsunami left one hundred percent of the surviving population drinking unsafe water. This resulted in eighty-five percent of those people having diarrhea for two consecutive weeks. Another outbreak in Bangladesh in 2004 involved over 17,000 cases and was caused by Escheria coli (1(pg.2)). The U.S. also had a case of the diarrheal disease in 2003 when a sever power outage left New York City powerless for weeks (2(pg.9)). Additionally, the U.S. experienced many cases of diarrhea after hurricanes Allison and Katrina because of microbes being present (1(pg.2)).