October Crisis

2000, 2321 residents of the city turned ill due to the polluted water and about 7 residents died. Almost identically in Flint, Michigan, a water crisis created by mankind, which started almost 5 years ago when in order to save money, the government made a decision to switch water sources from the Lake Huron to The Flint River. The Flint water crisis started back in 2011, the city's water source was switched from Lake Huron to Flint River. The water system that was provided to Flint from…

is a relatively novel area in the realm of technology. Probably the most prevalent use for social media with respect to humanitarian purposes is that of crisis analysis and intervention. In present society, social media platforms are implemented for almost every purpose, including times of crisis. Coordination of humanitarian relief during a crisis can be executed more effectively with the use of social media by gauging the affected population’s overall sentiment. Modern people frequent their…

United Nations that it is one of the main reasons why it is so big and not another League of Nations. In June 1956 when the leader of Egypt took the Suez Canal Britain, France and eventually the U.S stepped in and Went to war with Egypt. When the crisis started Canadians eagerly seized the opportunity for the UN services and lead by Lester B. Pearson the first UN peacekeeping mission was done, awarding Pearson with a Nobel Prize. Canada was one of the founding members of the UN and For almost…

community with a 40 percent poverty rate, afford to spend 55 million dollars to replace the cities underground piping system. Governor Snyder 's budget vastly underestimated the cost of such an operation by over 27 million dollars.(Breyesse) When the crisis first gained media attention America was sympathetic and gave its condolences, Michigan National Guard gave out water to those in need that lasted for one week. One week of aid does not equal out to three years of suffering. Former Air Force…

Introduction 40% of the world’s population today or more than 3 billion people are internet users. ("How to manage crisis communications in a digital age - Baton Rouge Business Report", 2016) With that in mind, today’s business minds must adjust how they handle crises in the digital space. The internet has called significant shifts in traditional crisis management. Audiences now have instant access to information because of the internet. Stakeholders being inclusive of employees and individuals…

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 Role Crisis Management Team 1 Crisis Management Team has been taking the approach to communicate with the counselors to help assist individual who are in need of immediate service. The information that is offered (Crandall, W, Parnel, J.Spillan,2014). Any form of crisis is to first understand to what are the immediate needs of the crisis situation. A situation that causes changes in an individual perception of the world, leave lasting ramifications of the ordeal that they had…

The Flint, Michigan Water Crisis In Flint, Michigan there was a water contamination problem. Flint is a majority black city where 40 percent of people live in poverty. The water crisis started in April 2014, after Flint changed its water source from treated Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water to the Flint River. After that, people started complaining about the quality of the water. City and state officials failed to see that there was a serious problem for months. (http://www.npr.org/s…

back from 1969 to 2000, they stated that the water quality was poor due to the heavy pollution by the industries. The water had “the presence of fecal coliform bacteria, low dissolved oxygen, plant nutrients, oils, and toxic substances” (Flint Water Crisis, 2017).The water was never treated properly and until 2007, the residents were still using Detroit’s drinking water as their primary and emergency water…

With these conditions it affected the unemployment rate which rose from 5 percent to up to 9.5 percent until reaching it highest at 10 percent in October of 2009. But from what we know that is not the true number of people who are not employed, the number was much larger. But that is not all the housing market was hit very hard during this period. House prices fell 30 percent during this time and many…