Humanitarian crisis

Groundwater regulations, support or oppose? I support them. Due to a drought there has been less water for everyone living in these areas. Farmers wanting as much water as they can get to insure their crops growth, have been drilling wells all over their property. With all the new wells being drilled, the groundwater has been going away faster than expected. I believe that there should be regulations set in place to help save the groundwater. With minimal to no water, it will not only be…

The Flint water crisis is a drinking water contamination issue in Flint, Michigan that started in April, 2014. These past 3 years have been an extremely hard time for Flint residents since they have had no proper drinking or bathing water in 2 years, so residents have been taking a stand against the government by carrying around jugs full of dirty, unsafe drinking water coming from their faucets at home to protest against the inaction of the government. The residents have a lot of courage to be…

Haiti faces a number of social and environmental factors that contribute to disease, while facing barriers to treatment, despite efforts to alleviate health issues. Basic latrine is Haiti is socially regarded as odd, although improper sanitation remains a large problem in many areas of the country (Kennedy, 2013). Warm air and the flowing of short rivers are two environmental factors that welcome the breeding of cholera bacteria in Haiti (Jutla, Whitcombe, Hasan, Haley, Akanda, Huq, Colwell,…

Water in the Pacific Northwest has always been important and its use plays a significant part in the history and livelihood of the region. Lauded as a climate with an excessive amount of rain, it stands to reason to believe that the Pacific Northwest is not in immediate danger from water shortage. However, it is to be noted that on average, in places like Seattle and Portland, the average rainfall (in terms of inches) is no higher-and sometimes less-than in New York. This observation is…

In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ten inches of rain fell. One major concern of all the rain was the Cedar River. Thousands of people had to evacuate because of the river flooding at twenty-two feet. City workers, contractors, volunteers and National Guard troops built temporary walls, levees and they laid down 250,000 sandbags to try and prevent any major flooding. The temporary barriers that were put up seemed to prevent major flooding, but the people who live around there are still being advised to stay…

The Everglades in Florida are in danger. Dredging,farming,and overall human interference has destroyed this once great place. The Everglades has government,activist and biologist behind saving it. So why is this still a problem? To begin with, the water supply is far from clean. Sure you might think “why don’t we just clean up the water?” It’s not that simple though. In Source two it brought up that the water has “Mercury,phosphorous and other hazardous elements.” This makes a big problem for…

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No topic in California is as divisive as the water use between the two halves. It seems that when water is an issue on debate in California the northern and southern end are as split as two different continents. The main issues splitting the state apart are Southern California’s lack of water resources, Northern California’s reluctance to give their water away, and the misuse of the state’s water in general. The lack of water brought on by the drought has further emphasized the tensions between…

In the state of California we are undergoing one of the worst droughts in state records. Nearly about 13,000 people have lost their water sources around East Porterville, California. For this reason and many more i believe that laws need to be made so that farmers are not allowed to take water from other people’s homes and or farms. In an article i read about ground-water laws it states that “ It is expected to cost the state 2.2 bn dollars in 2014 and will put more than 1,700 farm workers…

On the morning of August twenty-third, 1973, in a place called Stockholm, Sweden, Jan-Erik Olsson, an escaped convict, entered the Sveriges Kreditbanken, a bank in Stockholm, and took four bank employees hostage. He carried a loaded submachine gun and fired it into the ceiling, causing a mass panic. Jan-Erik wounded a policeman and demanded more than $700,000 in Swedish and foreign currency, a getaway car, and the release of Clark Olofsson, a convict who was serving time for an armed robbery and…