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Flint Is a Wake‐up Call
Author(s) -
Rexhausen Jeff
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.5942/jawwa.2016.108.0187
Subject(s) - tragedy (event) , wake , natural disaster , politics , natural (archaeology) , political science , political economy , history , development economics , sociology , geography , law , social science , economics , engineering , meteorology , archaeology , aerospace engineering
The scenes have been reminiscent of a natural disaster or of an impoverished emerging nation. Despite appearances, the residents of Flint, Mich., have been suffering from a different type of crisis. They found themselves without household access to a basic necessity that, up until earlier this year, virtually everyone took for granted in the United States. But the situation in Flint needs to be, for all of us, a wake‐up call to the larger economic and political issues that led to the tragedy.