Tainted tap : Flint's journey from crisis to recovery /
"After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city's predominantly African American residents were ignored until...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
[2021]
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469662121_davis |
| الملخص: | "After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city's predominantly African American residents were ignored until independent researchers confirmed dangerously elevated blood lead levels among Flint children and in the city's tap water. Despite a 2017 federal court ruling in favor of Flint residents who had demanded mitigation, such efforts have been incomplete at best. Assessing the challenges that community groups faced in their attempts to advocate for improved living conditions, 'Tainted Tap' offers a rich analysis of conditions and constraints that created the Flint water crisis"-- |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 1469662124 9781469662121 9798890854681 1469662108 9781469662107 9781469663326 |