ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Flint Water Crisis, Lake Huron, Trihalomethane
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Session 28: flint water crisis: 1 hr north of detroit, not a big city, doesn"t usually get a lot of attention from the media. Largely impoverished ~50%, including african americans, and immigrant minorities. For 50 years flint received clean drinking water and without too much cost. But the state wanted to save more money: the state directed the flint to use the nearby flint river (typical industrial river), which can be treated (not easily) to provide drinking water. The water leaves behind protective layer on the pipes. Safe drinking act is the same, safe epa measures how polluted the water can be to make it drinkable. Safe drinking water act is a compromise between the cost of providing safe drinking water and the harm of drinking polluted water. Us govt est how much your life is worth. Toral), who not only listened to the residents, gathered information from them, sampled the water from flint.
