Flint, Michigan is the home to 98,310 families. 90 percent of these family homes fall below the healthy threshold of lead contained in drinking water. The entire 98,310-population count, needs clean drinking water to survive (Parks). Flint’s water problem, not only displays a negative connection between the nation, African American and Native families, businesses, as well as the overall health of thousands. Fixating specifically on the 66,560 African Americans living in Flint, Michigan, environmental racism starts to stand out ("Population Estimates”). According to The New York Times, environmental racism can be defined as, “disproportionate exposure of blacks to polluted air, water, and soil,” (Eligon). Racism and segregation of
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Concerns starting with rashes, lost hair, and some sickened or ill. Beyond the physical characteristics affected by lead, comes mental. Small but subtle doses of the vital water can lower IQ levels, immediate initiate disabilities, disorders, and tentative behaviors (Adams). Following these minor effects come the more severe. Children sent to hospitals with lead poisoning, stunted growth, along with mothers of premature, and behavioral and learning problems (Greenblatt). Children, pregnant mothers, workers, everyone needs water, but few have reassurance their water is …show more content…
Businesses that declined and lives of hundreds put in danger will always be affected. Lead in the water started as a minor problem that was careless forgotten, turning into a major life-affecting issue. Public concerns for citizens should be addressed, no one should have been living in this flawed lifestyle. Concentrating on how to fix these major problems resort to $30 billion to replace rusted old pipelines. In addition, $1 trillion for the advancement of water mains (Adams). Posing as an immediate threat, the government has failed to protect its public in which the infrastructure is in dire need. Advancing into the future, Flint, Michigan’s water, along with hundreds of other cities suffering troubled water systems, efficient treatment must be demanded. Before more citizens are affected and connections, broken by the deadly
Concerns starting with rashes, lost hair, and some sickened or ill. Beyond the physical characteristics affected by lead, comes mental. Small but subtle doses of the vital water can lower IQ levels, immediate initiate disabilities, disorders, and tentative behaviors (Adams). Following these minor effects come the more severe. Children sent to hospitals with lead poisoning, stunted growth, along with mothers of premature, and behavioral and learning problems (Greenblatt). Children, pregnant mothers, workers, everyone needs water, but few have reassurance their water is …show more content…
Businesses that declined and lives of hundreds put in danger will always be affected. Lead in the water started as a minor problem that was careless forgotten, turning into a major life-affecting issue. Public concerns for citizens should be addressed, no one should have been living in this flawed lifestyle. Concentrating on how to fix these major problems resort to $30 billion to replace rusted old pipelines. In addition, $1 trillion for the advancement of water mains (Adams). Posing as an immediate threat, the government has failed to protect its public in which the infrastructure is in dire need. Advancing into the future, Flint, Michigan’s water, along with hundreds of other cities suffering troubled water systems, efficient treatment must be demanded. Before more citizens are affected and connections, broken by the deadly