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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Flint Water Crisis"”.
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Framing Flint : comparing mainstream and black newspaper coverage in the wake of environmental racism.
Flint, Michigan, has been in a water crisis for four years now after the predominately black community was lead-poisoned following the decisions of government officials they should have been able to trust. The city's insistence on using polluted river water along with a history of environmental …
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Living With Crisis: Family, Labor, and Environment in Flint, Michigan
… levels of lead and bacteria in the drinking water supply and forced to grapple with long-term harm to their health and water infrastructure. The Flint water crisis, as this event became known, transpired in a majority Black municipality in the American midwestern Rust Belt. Flint has a long …
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Three Essays on Public Policy and Health
… first two chapters use the unexpected shock of water borne lead in Flint Community Schools’ classrooms to estimate the causal impacts of lead on students’ cognitive and behavioral outcomes. The first paper focuses on the short-run academic achievement of elementary school children. At the …
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Secretion and Environmental Biochemistry of Legionella pneumophila in Corrosive Water
… and other opportunistic pathogens of drinking water pose important problems at the interface of biology, environmental engineering, public health, and governance. In this thesis, I explore the molecular mechanisms permitting survival of L. pneumophila in built water systems is the nature of its …
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Bad Water, Dirty Politics: Contrasting Governmental Responses to Two U.S. Water Crises
Two of the United States's most destructive water crises, separated by nearly twenty years, occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1993 and Flint, Michigan in 2014. This thesis compares and contrasts the two crises, focusing specifically on the differences in local governmental response to each …
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Impact of Premise Plumbing Conditions, Materials, Corrosion Control, Temperature, and Water Heater System Design on the Growth of Opportunistic Pathogens in Drinking Water
As waterborne disease originating in potable water plumbing systems (such as Legionnaires' Disease and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) infections) continue to increase, it is important to better understand the cause(s), responsible parties and interventions to prevent disease. This dissertation …
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Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States
… poor populations in America as depicted in the Flint Water Crisis in Michigan, massive health violations by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), and police shootings in Chicago, as well as Chicago gun violence in general pertaining to urban black poor individuals. In each of these …
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Interplay of Water Chemistry and Entrained Particulates in Erosion Corrosion of Copper and Nonleaded Alloys in Potable Water Systems
… corrosion of plumbing materials in domestic water systems is a complex phenomenon driven by water quality, hydrodynamic and electrochemical factors. Erosion corrosion accounts for over a third of copper hot water system failures in the U.S., hundreds of millions in damage, and may be expected …
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Proteomic and genomic characterization of the influence of copper on Legionella pneumophila and the drinking water microbiome
… building) plumbing and, when aerosolized during water use, infect the lungs of exposed individuals and cause a deadly form of pneumonia known as Legionnaires' disease. Given that it is one of the primary sources of tap-water associated disease throughout much of the world, this organism has been …
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Addressing gaps in the US EPA Lead and Copper Rule: Developing guidance and improving citizen science tools to mitigate corrosion in public water systems and premise plumbing
Lead and copper in drinking water are known to pose aesthetic and health concerns for humans and pets. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) set 90th percentile action levels for lead (15 ppb) and copper (1.3 mg/L), above which utilities must …
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Advancing Fundamental Understanding of Lead-Tin Solder Corrosion in Drinking Water: Nitrate Spallation Mechanism, Inhibition by Zinc Orthophosphate and Free Chlorine, and Implications for Canned Foods
… rising concern over elevated lead in drinking water in the aftermath of the Flint Water Crisis, forthcoming revisions to the U.S. EPA Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), and federal funding designated for replacing lead service lines, lead-tin solder corrosion control will become increasingly …