What caused this? Today I will have a chance to explain some of my ideas. To support these theories I will mention some documents to help in the essay, so let’s get started. [Doc.A] States: “…Adjacent river and creeks became brackish as water levels rose, reliable sources became scarce…as saltwater transfusion caused introduced filth tended to linger rather than wash away.” This may have caused the colonists to become sick. As the reliable water sources shrank and they were forced to drink the contaminated water.
The plaintiffs alleged that ingestion of toxic chemicals (trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene) used in this industries, which were tested in water samples from municipal wells, were responsible for the severe health effects. According to those who drank it, the water smelled and had an objectionable taste. The case, which eventually grew to involve eight families and three defendants (UniFirst Corporation), raised considerable hopes. One resident, Ann Anderson whose three year old son was diagnostic with leukemia in 1967, started to believe that the water produced by H and G was responsible for the group of leukemia cases and other illness in her neighborhood. Jimmy Anderson, Anne’s youngest child, died of acute lymphocytic leukemia in 1981, at the age of 12.
On average about 320 gallons of water is wasted every day which is an estimated 19,000 homes that are wasting their daily water usage (Ice Bucket Challenge). Soon enough ALS will be spreading awareness of the drought in
Hurricane Katrina became known as one of the most disastrous and expensive natural disasters in US history. Four months after the storm hit, the death toll was over 1,300 with hundreds still missing and the estimated property damage exceeded $75 billion. It also became one of embarrassment for our country due to our government’s failure to properly respond and poor communications. There are many lessons we can learn from their poor response, including how to properly assess risk, plan in a timely manner, and communicate effectively. Since New Orleans primarily lies below sea level, the protective barriers or levee systems should have been assessed to determine the winds it was capable of withstanding.
Each of these compounds is known to be poisonous, cancerous, or cause birth defects. The EPA fears that the drinking water will compromised due to runoff of the surface water discharge. Additionally, contamination of underground sources of drinking water and inadequate treatment of the waste water are possible. The threat of contaminated water supplies can cause a fearful population, largely due to the propaganda spread by anti-fracking initiatives. Although there are potential economical disadvantages to fracking, there are also enormous positives.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, West Virginia have all had numerous reports of contaminated water due to fracking. In 2012, the EPA stated that "inorganic and organic compounds associated with hydraulic fracturing have contaminated the aquifer at or below the depths used for domestic water supply in the Pavillion area,”(EPA 2012) This study was of a towns water supple in Wyoming where the water supply was contaminated after fracking was started. The oil and gas companies blame improper equipment for the contamination of the water not the actual process of fracking. If this is the issue fracking should be regulated more so that incidents like this do not spill over into other states and poisoning more of our vital water
32,500 children have been neglected in 2010, and in Ingham County 42 percent of children have been abused or neglected (milhs.org). In Ingham County, 8.5 children of every 1000 are in out of home care, referring to foster homes, etc (milhs.org). Unemployment rates and low income is affecting the youth and children in terrible ways. WLNS.COM reported in an article titled “More Michigan Children living in Poverty” that there are a lot of reasons why neglect and abuse has gone up 92%. Now there are more health professionals available to investigate issues of neglect and abuse and family court in Ingham County has become a strong source of help for
Do Children Living below the Poverty Level have adequate Health Insurance? Abstract This paper goes over children living in poverty and whether they have access to adequate health insurance. The paper compiles statistics on uninsured children; researches the Medicaid laws that congress has passed and covers the effects that lack of health insurance has on children. Over 40 million people are living below the poverty line, and many children are living without any health coverage. The unemployment level in our country has nearly doubled since 2007, and children can be some of the hardest hit it our economy.
Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks, with forty percent of those people being children. Living in poverty impacts children in many ways, from lower levels of education, to health problems, developmental delays, behaviour disorders, and even effecting the way they live as adults. Over time, many different groups brought the child poverty epidemic to the attention of the federal government hoping for
Lake Huron, the hardest-hit of the five lakes, experienced record low levels this past winter. These conditions are troubling to the shipping industry, which spent the last year struggling to move cargo into ports with low water levels—a situation similar to the disruption of barge traffic on the Mississippi River (Schwartz, 2013). The irregular weather, while specific to one year, illustrates a larger trend. Extreme drought and high temperatures have kept water levels in the Great Lakes below their long-term averages for the past 14 years. Over the past 43 years, Michigan has been the second-fastest-warming state in the country, followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin (Kalish, 2012).