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Flint Water Crisis Rationale

Flint Water Crisis Gaps/ Edits Needed:

To begin with, most of the content of the article is old, with little modern content. Much of the data and statistics are from 2016, so new information on the current status of the issue is needed. We plan to do research on the current issues and status of the issues surrounding the Flint water crisis. We will also fix some of the citation errors cited in the talk page. There is also some disputed content that we can possibly clear up. We have also talked about expanding upon how this issue is affecting people’s mental health. The mental health section is small, and we believe that going more in-depth on this would benefit the article. Also updating the Donald Trump presidency, as that is only current until 2016.

Relationship to SDG6:

The Flint Water Crisis directly ties in with SDG 6 as it relates to water filtration and treatment which are critical to the SDG's mission of providing clean and safe water for all. Rethinking water infrastructure is a discussion at the center of Flint. Social justice is also critical, as accusations of environmental racism and how the crisis disproportionately affects poorer people are just two of the many claims brought against those thought to be responsible for the unsafe water. These matters of inequality tie Flint to the intersectionality of the other SDGs as well.

Importance of Flint Water Crisis

Often, discussions of the UN’s sustainable development goals, especially SDG6, focus on promoting these goals in developing countries. Developed countries’ role in the implementation of these goals tends to be that of promoting these goals in other countries with the assumption that these rights have already been available for citizens of developed countries. The Flint Water Crisis challenges this assumption. The United States is the world’s largest economy and understanding how a city in the US could lack access to adequate water supply for years is vital to the implementation of SDG6. If the world’s leading economy cannot provide these resources for its citizens, what hope is there for developing countries? To this day, Flint residents do trust in the safety of their water supply system and this has lasting effects on their health and wellbeing. Also, Flint is a majority-black city and understanding how environmental racism affected this crisis contributes to understanding the issues of lack of resources on an international scale. The Flint Water Crisis is an excellent case of the lack of equity in access to resources and its consequences.

Flint and Racial Liberalism