Financial crisis

Due to the hundreds of articles available on the Flint Water Crisis, I chose this one article because it broke down the timeline of events and included links to various documentation and articles. I believe that this author is credible because they used official documents to provide the timeline. To summarize the article or situation; to save money, the state switched Flints water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. The Flint River is polluted due to the industrial complexes, landfills,…

(U) Key Finding #3: Location of Embassy compound and its immediate surroundings (U) The U.S. Embassy in Freetown is located in the center of the city of Freetown on a small hilltop. The entire compound is surrounded by a wall and fencing with limited access to the main structure. The compound is approximately 11.4 acres with the main building being approximately 6,700 sq meters.1 There is a small neighborhood to the south-west and another to the north-east. Both these neighborhoods are…

he public opinion and legal battle of over what could happen for the future of Kern River water after it has been available after a court decision in 2007 that the Kern Delta Water District lose rights to Kern River water. The topic is very interesting because it is a concern here locally for the city of Bakersfield. The City of Bakersfield appealed to the State Water Resources Control Board because the city said that the Kern River is not fully appropriated and it is available for the use of…

In Source #2 (“Financial Times: California town faces life without water”) it talks about a person named Angelica Gallegos, who hasn’t taken a shower in five months because of farmers using water to grow crops. So many people have lost water to their homes and towns, over…

Natural Hazards Research Task Identify the location The Millennium Drought (2002-2009) was a period of time when much of Southern Australia experienced an especially long dry period. It was particularly severe in the southwest and southeast as they were they are the most populated areas of Australia. Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane were affected by drought constantly or at intervals. While these area in the south had severe droughts, the northern areas of…

The Flint Michigan Water Crisis The Flint Michigan Water Crisis is a major disaster. The lead in the water caused health issues among the people living there and prompted an investigation into what caused the lead levels to rise, and who or what was at fault. This is an example of Risks and Hazards, as the Risk was the changing of water and the Hazard was the contaminated drinking water. Key: Flint homes with more than 15 Parts per billion of lead (ppb) (2/1/16) This image shows how many…

The essay that you will be reading will be about the yuma project it's good times and bad times. You will also be reading about how irrigation changed yuma in plenty ways what was the efficiency and what were the downfalls and what they did to accomplish and progress from the downfalls. You are also going to read about how much water they were losing and what they did too not lose so much water. There is also going to be somethings that i didn't know that i know how you're going to read how…

The argument that the use of the Mason River for water sports, such as swimming, boating and fishing, will surely increase after the clean up the city park department will perform and, therefore, that more money should be invested in riverside facilities to support these recreational activities is not entirely logically convincing, since it ignores certain crucial assumptions. First, the argument assumes that all the people that expressed their preference for water sports in the cited survey, do…

California, and for all Californians, are experiencing a major drought and it can affect the state economically, politically, and socially. With this horrid condition, many of the helpless citizens and farmers of the California state are expecting a movement and California Emergency Drought Relief Act to be signed by Governor Brown of California to approve of the change to have a progressive time consumption for agricultural scholars to propose a transformation for the drought presently because…

Describe in details how irrigation changed Yuma/ Southern Arizona. Irrigation changed Yuma/ Southern Arizona in both a positive and negative way. A positive way that irrigation help was by the dam blocks being built and the water level down preventing safe travel down river and travel upriver. A negative way that irrigation did not help was by impacting steamer business which brought down the economy in Yuma and Southernern Arizona. With the economy passing of a hard time there was a time…