Water injustice is a serious issue that strives even within the greatest nations Great nations such as the United States of America has areas where there is no access to clean water. For instance, the Native American Tribe, Navajo, struggles immensely with no access to clean water due Uranium mining many years ago and chemical improper disposal (Laughlin 2016). The Navajo tribe did not resist against companies’ mining due to the ignorance of the mining and the potential health hazard (Laughlin 2016). But, situation likes the Navajo tribe cannot be justify by blaming the mining company since the government or state and political agency marginalizes the tribe, which supports the water inequality. To analyze these outside forces, some aspects of Carolina L. Balazs and Isha Ray’s framework, “The Drinking Water Disparities” will be used. Balazs and Rays’ framework focuses on trying to understand how drinking water disparities occur within california by analyzing social and environmental pressure around the area. The framework is a multi-level concept that consists of factors, actors, and impacts (Balazs and Roy, 604). Rays and …show more content…
Balazs’ concept of built and sociopolitical environment will be used to analyze the Navajo’s water injustice. Thus, burrowing Rays and Balazs’ concepts illuminate that water inequality occurs because other forms of injustice toward the Navajo tribe exist. In the Navajo situation, man made environments or “built environment” is one of the caused for the deficit of clean water since the infrastructures are not constructed to withstand aging. A large portion of the contaminated water developed from the breaking of a dam that released toxic water into viable waters: “A dam broke at the United Nuclear Corporation Mill. It released over three times the radiation, making it the biggest nuclear spill in U.S. history. This poisoning even spawned its own new disease, labeled “Navajo neuropathy” (Laughlin 2016). This illustrates that manmade infrastructure failures are a factor to the loss of clean water in the Navajo community because the dam was meant to be a barrier, protecting the residents from the chemical waste; however, the lack of proper maintenance lead an entire community to worry about their health and water. Therefore, built environment plays a critical role in water inequality since they are barriers for the resident, but are susceptible to holding contaminated water, breakage or failure. Despite that infrastructures are dangerous, political agency or the government has have the greatest impact on water inequality since they pick and choose the problems they want to address. “[The Navajo tribe has] spent years lobbying the government for adequate funds to improve impoverished living conditions and to recover [water] but they often have difficulty competing for aid compared with places like Flint, Michigan” (Tom Risen 2016). This reveals that the government is avoiding Native American’s water inequality by focusing more on another place, which deepens the problem. In addition, the Navajo tribe is being marginalized and forgotten by politics and society since they are being neglected unlike the resident of Flint, Michigan. As a result, the Government’s action have created more burden on the Navajo tribe by prioritizing Flint, Michigan. By burrowing the aspect of analyzing key factors from Ray and Balazs’ framework, the Navajo tribe’s water inequality exists because of the lack of support from the government and poor manmade infrastructures.
The government is a player in the water inequality since it does not provide the necessary funds and manpower to help clean the Navajo tribe’s contaminated water. In addition, the political agency or businesses that developed the contamination are fueling the contaminated waters by not maintaining infrastructures to an acceptable status. Therefore, Ray and Balazs’ framework was efficient in analyzing the Navajo’s circumstance because the framework highlights how other factors establish water inequality. Thus, the government and infrastructures are key player in Navajo water crisis since they both limit the Navajo tribe’s access to
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Maude Barlow’s “Water Incorporated: The Commodification of the World’s Water” gives a voice to a very real but vastly unknown issue: the privatization of water. I refer to it as vastly unknown because it wasn’t until this article that I was even aware such a power struggle existed. Barlow first introduces startling statistics, meant to grab the attention of its reader. Once she has your attention, she introduces the “new generation of trade and investment agreements.” (306) This includes referencing many different acronyms such as, FTAA, NAFTA, GTAA and WWF. FTAA, NAFTA, and GTAA are the villains of this story. Simply put, the privatization of water would end in socioeconomic turmoil and dehydration worldwide.
The Flint water crisis would be one of the most critical things today in michigan. It’s critical for young children not to get lead exposure they should be screened from the lead and lead levels in children's bodies as well. (National Center for Healthy Housing) The water needs to be treated with which it will increase the corrosiveness and potentially further erode any lead piping. (Duke) The People in Flint are a facing with not be able to drink water, and shower. All of these things that happened are critical factors of what is happening in the Flint water crisis today. (Reveal)
Theatre as a unique, live art form does not only consist of theatrical performances that tell stories, but are significant as to how they cover certain topics that portray issues within the world. Because of this, theatre is an art form that can be used as a platform to discuss and bring awareness to issues that affect one’s community. The play, In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin Mccraney follows the upcoming of age story of Oya, a young African-American woman, that struggles to find her true self and identity within the projects of San Pere, Louisiana. With the presence of Yoruban tradition, In the Red and Brown Water explores the themes of poverty and racial injustices among minorities through the distinctive use of design clues,
Native Americans have suffered from one of America’s most profound ironies. The American Indians that held the lands of the Western Hemisphere for thousands of years have fallen victim to some of the worst environmental pollution. The degradation of their surrounding lands has either pushed them out of their homes, made their people sick, or more susceptible to disease. If toxic waste is being strategically placed near homes of Native Americans and other minority groups, then the government industry and military are committing a direct offense against environmental justice. Productions of capitalism and militarism are deteriorating the lands of American Indians and this ultimately is environmental racism.
...t be as prevalent in the United States as in other developing counties such as Bolivia, Lesotho, China and India. The film expert explains “water is a transient element, recycles itself around the globe through natural redistribution system of precipitation, accumulation and evaporation”. Even if we are half way around the world pollution and water affects us. The film relates to human growth and development in a sense that water is essential to us so therefore we cannot live without it. It provides us with energy and most important function is to help remove toxins from the body. The film was very informative it helps to gain a new perspective as to what is happening in other counties with their day to day challenges. A very sad story was being told about what these people are going through in Iran Salinas’ words “Many have live without love but not without water”
In the case of Neskantaga, much like many other communities, the lack of clean water is due to failures in their water treatment plant, which has not been properly maintained due to the inadequate funding that the community has to both repair and run the facility. The government did initially pay to have the water treatment plant installed in 1993, however, in 1995 the treatment plant failed and has not produced clean water since (Johnson, 2020). Despite the hundreds of people that have been impacted by this for decades, the concerns of the community have gone effectively unaddressed by the government, who have started but never completed projects that would fix this issue for Neskantaga. Meanwhile, a nearby diamond mine along the same river that Neskantaga gets its water from operated for all twelve years that it was open without experiencing challenges filtering water (Scott & Cowen, 2020). This demonstrates that it is not an issue of the government's ability to provide clean water, but rather their unwillingness to fund money and resources into Indigenous
The controversy over water rights has been a long battle that the Navajo Nation has endured for decades. This controversy which is complicated by numerous issues has only been increasing in recent years. For example the Navajo Hopi Little Colorado Water Settlement that has been in litigation for 33 years. Of particular note Navajo people and their elected officials are struggling to balance expectations with reality including legally mandated coordination with state and federal governments. As a result there has been notable conflict in resources associated with water management. These fundamental issues have been exasperated by a host of concerns: (1) deceased water availability due to drought or water development; (2) long litigation proceedings, (3) growing demands to use “Navajo Water” to meet non-Navajo energy needs in the southwest including coal consumption, uranium exploration-mining and natural gas fracking, and (4) the confusion of Indian Water Rights held separate from the United States water rights systems.
The Mexican government has been ineffective in addressing the ecological issues associated with the water shortages in Mexico City because of its institutional fragmentation. Currently, forty-five percent of the water used in the greater Mexico City is supplied by over-exploiting the aquifer because the current water extraction rate from the aquifer is one hundred and eighty-four percent greater than the sustainable level. (Pina, 2011 ) Since Mexico City receives seventy percent of its water from the aquifer, its depletion poses a significant problem to the government of Mexico and its people. (Pina, 2011 ) In Mexico City, the federal, regional and local government levels all play a part in determining water management policies. While the local government of Mexico City sh...
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... drinking water such as Bolivia and Ghana. In the documentary, Flow the experience of poor Bolivians was shown. The water corporations provided unclean drinking water that was full of pollutants. The water cost more than the poor could afford. As a result the citizens rioted and protested against the private water company.
Water is pure and a transparent liquid that is vital for all humans, plants and animals on the planet. In the United States, people have access to clean drinking water and clean sanitation systems, not like in other parts of the world where clean safe drinking water is getting scarce. A lot of people don’t have access to it, and many regions are suffering severe drought. Yet, humans take it for granted, they don’t appreciate that a reliable clean supply of water is essential to human health, economy and agricultural prosperity. Having clean and safe potable water is a right and not a privilege. Some individuals don’t appreciate the advantage of having clean water available at
The state’s common pool resource was and still continues to be water. This delicate resource in the American west is in danger of disappearing, and for the millions of people living in large cities are desperate to continue to use it. But the issue of common pool resources is not one that is recent but is one that has been plaguing California since its founding. When California’s population started to grow around the turn of the twentieth century, the town official within the state started to run into some common pool resource issues, water. Cities, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, used whatever power they had to own and control what little water the California environment produced. The cities are large and successful municipalities today because of what they had to do to control the water all those years ago. The city used tactics, such as buying out the land, petitioning the government, and, sometimes, illegal actions, to win the waters of California and their success back then highly shows in their success
There are many types of pollution. The main types of pollution are water, air, soil, thermal, radioactive, noise, and light. The topic for this experiment is Water Pollution. Water Pollution became a problem in the 1900’s when water started being treated like sewage. Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson on April 22, 1970 because of 1900’s pollution. Water Pollution also affects humans and animals. There was a Cholera outbreak in 1854, before water pollution became a problem, and a Typhoid outbreak in New York from 1900 to 1915. There are multiple possible causes to Water Pollution. Humans let out chemicals into the environment, and when some of those chemicals
Wastewater is the combination of water-carried or liquid wastes starting in the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, industrial or commercial facilities. In addition to this, surface water, groundwater and storm water may also be present. It is any water that has been badly affected in quality by anthropogenic influence. It contains waste from residential, industrial and commercial processes. Municipal water contains industrial wastewater, sewage and gray water. Gray water is the water from sinks and showers. Large industries also produce wastewater.
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