The Flint, Michigan, Water Crisis: A Case Study in Regulatory Failure and Environmental Injustice
The Flint, Michigan, Water Crisis: A Case Study in Regulatory Failure and Environmental Injustice
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DOI：
10.1089/env.2016.0014
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
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通讯作者：
Benson, Eugene B.
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作者：
Butler, Lindsey J.;Scammell, Madeleine K.;Benson, Eugene B.
弗林特水危机凸显了与联邦饮用水监管、解释和执行相关的众多监管失误。密歇根州发生的事件，从最初利用腐蚀性水源为弗林特提供饮用水，到众多监管机构的反应不足，表明《安全饮用水法案》(SDWA) 可能被错误解释、实施和执行不力，从而导致接触不安全饮用水的危险。我们的目标是在美国城市饮用水铅含量高的其他报道事件的背景下，讨论 2014 年至 2015 年密歇根州的这些监管失败。与弗林特人民一样，许多受影响的居民生活在经济萧条、少数族裔比例较高的地区。在具有这种人口特征的社区中，不安全饮用水的反复出现趋势表明这是一个环境不公正问题。
The Flint water crisis highlights numerous regulatory failures related to federal drinking water regulation, interpretation, and enforcement. The events that unfolded in Michigan, from the initial utilization of a corrosive water source to provide Flint's drinking water to the inadequate response of numerous regulators, demonstrate how the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) can be wrongly interpreted, implemented, and weakly enforced, leading to dangerous exposure to unsafe drinking water. Our objective is to discuss these regulatory failures in Michigan in 2014-2015 in the context of other reported incidents of U.S. cities with high levels of lead in drinking water. Like the people of Flint, many of the affected residents are living in economically depressed areas with high rates of racial minorities. The recurring trend of unsafe drinking water in communities with this demographic profile qualifies this as an issue of environmental injustice.