Analysis Of What Went Wrong In Flint By Anna Maria

NAME: Zain Choudhary DATE: April 17, 2017

455: Response #4: Partnership and Ethical Challenges In the article “What Went Wrong in Flint” by Anna Maria, she talks about a major public health issue, where the tap drinking water was contaminated with high levels of lead all over the city affecting everyone in the area. She tells a story, where families noticed that throughout the months of drinking tap water, they have noticed many negative physical changes to their body. People started to have stomach problems, losing their hair and developing rashes throughout the city. The tap water started smelling like sulfur and chlorine, and came in different color like urine and rust. This created many health concerns within the community, where

In chapter 7, it states that funding projects can severely limit and pose a conflict of interest for an organization. This was a major issue in Flint as they needed to prove to the city that their water was contaminated with lead. One example, was that “Edwards team, Flint Water Study, bought 300 testing kids, mostly with his own funds, and send them to a church in Flint.” Edward needed to help fund his project, to test the water levels in all the neighborhoods in Flint, and no one was funding him. Instead, he spent his own money in buying many water testing kids and gave them to a church who distributed it throughout different neighborhoods. I feel like the people of Flint should have helped fund the project, but at the same time, the people of Flint were living below the poverty line while the median household income was around $25,000. Around half of the residents of Flint were living below the federal poverty level, so there was not much funding to the project due to this

It talks about this in chapter 7, where if an agency, such as city officials or the EPA group fails to work with the needs and desires of the community, the agency faces difficult problems with complying with the expectations and directives. The community of Flint went to the city and tried working with the tap water problem, but the city officials kept telling them that ‘the water met federal standards”. However, the city was lying to the community, where they altered the results to show the it met the federal standards. They took 60 samples of water instead of 100, they pre-flushed the water to get better results, and they chose slower steam which alters the results. They changed the results so they would save a lot of money and not deal with the problem. The city did not want to fix this problem, nor did they want to work with the community to resolve the