ET100 W3Assignment.docx ET 100 Whose Responsibility is it Anyway? ET100 Assignment 3

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ET100 W3Assignment.docx ET 100 Whose Responsibility is it Anyway? ET100 Assignment 3 Flint, Michigan had a water crisis that began in 2014 due to engineers and politicians being unethical. The ... city was in dire financial need, which prompted the state government to appoint an emergency manager to make decisions on cutting costs for the city. It was decided to stop their water supply from Lake Huron and to pull their drinking water from the Flint River, a notoriously polluted waterway that runs through downtown Flint. The reason for stopping the supply from Lake Huron was that the city had to pay Detroit a fee for their water supply. Engineers for the city decided that they could treat the toxic water from the Flint River well enough with the existing treatment plants in the city that the water would be drinkable. The engineers œdetermined that an anti-corrosive agent would need to be added for it to be cons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Show More]

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