"Flint water crisis" from_date:2012

The blueprint of disaster: COVID-19, the Flint water crisis, and unequal ecological impacts. COVID-19 is unique in the scope of its effects on morbidity and mortality. However, the factors contributing to its disparate racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic effects are part of an expansive and continuous history of oppressive social policy and marginalising geopolitics. This history is characterised

Evaluating Water Lead Levels During the Flint Water Crisis. In April 2014, the drinking water source in Flint, Michigan was switched from Lake Huron water with phosphate inhibitors to Flint River water without corrosion inhibitors. The absence of corrosion control and use of a more corrosive source increased lead leaching from plumbing. Our city-wide citizen science water lead results

Social and Built Environmental Correlates of Predicted Blood Lead Levels in the Flint Water Crisis. To highlight contextual factors tied to increased blood lead level (BLL) risk following the lead-in-water contamination in Flint, Michigan. Using geocoded BLL data collected in 2013 and 2015 and areal interpolation, we predicted BLLs at every residential parcel in the city. We then spatially

Four Phases of the Flint Water Crisis: Evidence from Blood Lead Levels in Children The Flint Water Crisis (FWC) is divisible into four phases of child water-lead exposure risk: Phase A) before the switch in water source to the Flint River (our baseline); Phase B) after the switch in water source, but before boil water advisories; Phase C) after boil water advisories, but before the switch back

Voices from Flint: Community Perceptions of the Flint Water Crisis We describe the self-reported socioeconomic and health impacts, as well as the coping mechanisms employed by a drug-using cohort of adults during the Flint water crisis (FWC) in Flint, Michigan. Participants from an ongoing longitudinal Emergency Department study were contacted between April 2016 and July 2016 and completed

Flint Water Crisis Caused By Interrupted Corrosion Control: Investigating "Ground Zero" Home. Flint, Michigan switched to the Flint River as a temporary drinking water source without implementing corrosion control in April 2014. Ten months later, water samples collected from a Flint residence revealed progressively rising water lead levels (104, 397, and 707 μg/L) coinciding with increasing water

Flint Water Crisis: What Happened and Why?

Quoth Dave Mastio on the Flint water crisis: Don’t worry, be happy. Things were worse in the past Quoth Dave Mastio on the Flint water crisis: Don't worry, be happy. Things were worse in the past | ScienceBlogs Skip to main content Advertisment Search Search Toggle navigation Main navigation * Life Sciences * Physical Sciences * Environment * Social Sciences * Education * Policy * Medicine * Brain & Behavior * Technology * Free Thought 1. insolence 2. Quoth Dave Mastio on the Flint water crisis: Don't worry, be happy. Things were worse in the past Quoth Dave Mastio on the Flint water crisis: Don't worry, be happy. Things were worse in the past * facebook * twitter * reddit * linkedin * email * print By oracknowson January 27, 2016. It's been nearly three weeks

Toxicodynamics of Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic- induced kidney toxicity and treatment strategy: A mini review Environmental pollution has become a concerning matter to human beings. Flint water crisis in the USA pointed out that pollution by heavy metal is getting worse day by day, predominantly by Lead, Cadmium, Mercury and Arsenic. Despite of not having any biological role in flora

Identification of Splicing Quantitative Trait Loci (sQTL) in Drosophila melanogaster with Developmental Lead (Pb2+) Exposure Lead (Pb) poisoning has been a major public health issue globally and the recent Flint water crisis has drawn nation-wide attention to its effects. To better understand how lead plays a role as a neurotoxin, we utilized the model to study the genetic effects of lead

Multi-Omics Reveals that Lead Exposure Disturbs Gut Microbiome Development, Key Metabolites and Metabolic Pathways Lead exposure remains a global public health issue, and the recent Flint water crisis has renewed public concern about lead toxicity. The toxicity of lead has been well established in a variety of systems and organs. The gut microbiome has been shown to be highly involved in many

refused to stand up to the worst elements in his party. Oh, and he was also asleep at the switch, contributing to the Flint water crisis. Add to that my state senator, Patrick Colbeck, who not only has antivaccine proclivities, but "questions" evolution and, of course, denies climate science. Politically, it's a painful place to live right now in a lot of ways.One area, however, where Michigan has done

by hosting an antivaccine event there. This is the kind of help that isn’t needed.One of the things I like to do from time to time to set this blog apart (and also because it interests me) is to discuss happenings and news relevant to the major topics of this blog that are occurring in my neck of the woods. It’s the reason why, for instance, I’ve discussed the Flint water crisis on more than one occasion

in pipes was restricted as of 1986 in U.S. (but still found in municipal pipes, older homes) 2. Flint Water Crisis started in 2014 and resulted from lead contaminated water 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis 3. Industrial waste exposure (e.g. soil contaminated with lead) 4. Residence near busy highway 5. Regional airport with piston engine aircraft 6

#permalink @TBruce: I, too, had to re-read the post to make sure it wasn't that Jimmy Page. Just like with the post on the Flint water crisis, where I had to Google to find that the Michael Brown who served as emergency manager of Flint was't the Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown who was in charge of FEMA during the Bush 43 administration. Name coincidences happen. They've even happened to me: when I first moved

. Michigan is a frustrating state to live in these days. Our state government has just shown itself to be epically incompetent in its handling of the Flint water crisis, which I've written about a couple of times before. Our legislature repealed our mandatory motorcycle helmet law, and as a result in this state motorcycles are more donorcycles than ever. Our state has historically had low vaccine uptake this bill dies in committee.Here's where the governor could (slightly) redeem himself after the Flint Water crisis. There's no doubt at all in my mind that our governor, Rick Snyder, has screwed up royally there. There's just no other way to describe it. However, Snyder's not always wrong. In fact, on this one issue, the issue of school vaccine mandates, he understands, or at least appears to:Governor

the utility and engagement of AA families in FHH activities; increase effective health communication within the family structure; and increase the health literacy of participants in a multifaceted effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. Flint is an ideal community in which to conduct this participatory research because the recent events of the Flint Water Crisis have