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    These issues must come to a conclusion. Something local has been going on that is not ok. The Flint Water Crisis is something that is ruining lives and the city. This can’t be ignored. In Flint Michigan, lead has gotten into every pipe and is getting into people’s drinking water. Lead is a poison that, when consumed, can be very fatal and life threatening. Officials ran tests and experiments on the water and they still said it was ok to drink and use. This is ridiculous. This has been going…

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    because the interior of the island is rough, hot, and dry. Water sources there are scarce, and many people have lost their lives when traveling across the rough dry terrain. They did not properly plan for the amount of water they might need in their travels, and when unforeseen events occurred they did not make it to their destination in time before running out of water. In early 2005, the city of Toowoomba, Australia was facing a future water shortage issues as its reservoir was drying up. In…

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    lead heavy water and a state of emergency lasting over three years. To end the devastation, the Army Corps of Engineers must be called in to remove and replace the rusted pipelines,…

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    A Murky Situation: The Flint Water Crisis Most Americans would readily agree that all people deserve the right to clean water, but the when they realize the large monetary commitment this requires, the water becomes murky, both literally and figuratively. This phenomenon is pronounced in Flint, Michigan. The downturns of the auto industry in the 1980s wrecked havoc in this prominently black city to the extent that today about 40% of its citizens live under the poverty line. In 2014, Flint sought…

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    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,…

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    lthough greywater systems offer some relief to the water crisis in California, it also poses several dilemmas to the public such as high costs to build and maintain, and an influx of harmful pathogens in the water supply. There are plenty of different corporations that install greywater systems such as Greywater Corps or Greywater Action. Greywater Corps demands a price of $1000 to install laundry systems. According to Greywater Action “laundry to landscape installation price ranges from $700 to…

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    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…

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    dry. How could it be possible for a flourishing water supply to shrivel up and die? Today 's world is filled with conflict, often small discrepancies blown out of proportion. Social media has made it exceedingly easy for anyone in the world to debate, scrutinize, and throw unintelligent hatred at issues placed before them. There is one issue however that cannot be denied; although many have tried to ignore it. Our world is facing a global climate crisis. The world is changing and humans have…

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    drinking water, but sadly, the residents of Flint, Michigan do not have that luxury. Since 2015, I’ve heard stories about water crisis in Flint. When I received the assignment in my AP Human Geography class to write a letter to a leader, I thought it would be a perfect time to write about the Flint water crisis. As the governor of Michigan, you have a responsibility to ensure that all the residents of your state have access to safe water. By taking action and extending the EPA’s Safe Drinking…

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    is a revolutionary project which aims at providing fresh drinking water to the entire world. This report describes today's water crisis problem, possible solutions, challenges, proposals for funding future activities of Ice dream project, discussion of the proposals followed by conclusions and recommendation. THE PROBLEM In the 21st century, more than a billion people across the world are still without access to safe drinking water and around 2.5 billion people do not have access to improved…

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