Description
Environmental Health Policy
The Session Long Project (SLP) for this course entails development of a series of position papers (one page) on the topics introduced in each module. After reading and reviewing the required materials for the modules, draft a position paper informed by what you learned from this background information.
For this initial SLP assignment, your position paper should address the environmental justice implications of clean water.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Length: One page, single-spaced.
Your work will be evaluated based on the grading rubric criteria. Please review this rubric before you begin working on the assignment
Required Reading
Bhattacharya, D. (2013). Chapter 7: Clean water legislation and mosquito control. In Public health policy: Issues, theories, and advocacy. (pp. 201–212). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Flint water crisis. (2016). Congressional Digest, 95(3), 10.
Greenberg, M. R. (2014). Delivering fresh water: Critical infrastructure, environmental injustice, and Flint, Michigan. American Journal of Public Health, 106(8), 1358–1360.
Rubenfire, A. (2016, February 4). Flint hospital, state hit with $100m lawsuit over Legionnaires’ outbreak. Modern Healthcare. Retrieved from http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160204/N...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Summary of the Clean Water Act. Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/sdwa
Xavier University Library. (2014). How to write a position paper. Retrieved from http://www.xavier.edu/library/students/documents/p...
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IMPLECATION OF CLEAN WATER
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Environmental justice refers to the fair and appropriate treatment and getting involved in
keeping the environment clean regardless of the race, financial status, culture, religious belief or
color so as to achieve better health. It includes also the use of water with a lot of concern as the
water sources are kept clean (Greenberg, 2014). Dirty water supply and use by a human being
are associated with a lot of dangers when it comes to the health. Use of dirty water can be very
dangerous when it comes to the health condition of the users.
Use of clean water ensures proper and healthy living of people. There are diseases that
are caused and spread through the use of contaminated water. Use of dirty water should ...
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