Categories: All - disease - privatization - globalization - capitalism

by BELLE OCTOBER 3 years ago

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Tegan Lengyel, Samantha Paredes, Liv Mondlock, and Belle October

The scarcity of safe drinking water in poor and rural communities is a pressing issue exacerbated by economic barriers and geographical challenges. These communities often lack the financial resources to afford water treatment systems, resulting in reliance on unsafe water sources, which leads to higher rates of disease and mortality.

Tegan Lengyel, Samantha Paredes, Liv Mondlock, and Belle October

Floating topic

agriculture

Globalization

Population Growth

Access to safe drinking water and sanitation

Water Rights

Rural communities will have less access to these resources

Low rates won't satisfy capitalistic goals

Gegraphical restraints

Economic restraints

Water Privatization

The Inherent Contradictions of Capitalism

Theoritcal Origins of E.J.
Sustainability theory
Local and specific E.J. movements
Civil Rights Movement

Water policy

Poor communities lack the economic abundance to obtain these water treatments

Rainwater catchment/Gravity Water

Desalination

Costly water system treatment

Water Treatment systems

Potential Solutions

Rural communities carrying water by foot

Unaffordable water transportation systems

Limited availability of safe drinking water

Unaffordable safe drinking water

Disease/Death at higher rates in rural communities

People drinking unsafe water in rural communities

Tegan Lengyel, Samantha Paredes, Liv Mondlock, and Belle October

Environmental Justice

The Water Crisis
Subtopic
Climate change

Overuse

Disruption in natural cycle

Loss of wetlands

Earthquakes

Sinkholes