DC Water Case Summary

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a. Size in sales: In 2001, bottled water was among the world’s most attractive beverage categories, with global sales exceeding 32 billion gallons and annual growth averaging nearly 9 percent between 1996 and 2001.

The local issue as described in the first Milestone submission is water quality. Independence is a rural area in southeast Kansas. With a population of 9,453 residents being reported in last year’s census reports of the town of Independence, you can imagine that it is a relatively small community when compared to even your hometown. This population total is significantly lower this year with the closing of the local hospital in December of last year, with a community lacking the basic necessity of an emergency room and medical testing facility, many residents have decided to make a change and move to a more stable area. With the closing of the hospital the city of Independence has decided to spend $3.5 million to renovate the vacant facility into a new city offices location, in an attempt to modernize the township and combine all of the city’s services into a central location. This decision was made by our local representatives because they felt this was the best way to spend the tax payer’s money, the irony of the situation is that the hospital needed $3.5 million to renovate the facility for themselves in order to pass the states medical inspection and remain open to the public.

Plaintiff further asserts that the Defendant breached its duty of care to her by: (1) “failing to fix a hazardous condition within a reasonable time;” (2) “failing to adequately warn plaintiff of a hazardous condition;” and (3) “otherwise failing to exercise reasonable and due care under the circumstances.” The Plaintiff is seeking compensatory damages in the amount of two hundred thousand dollars, plus interest and costs.

It began sometime in April 2014, Flint, Michigan city officials changed the water supply from Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to Flint River. The water in the Flint River has long suffered from contamination, in the seventies, the river was severely degraded, due to numerous containments such as fecal coliform bacteria, oils, and toxic substances (Library, 2016). Water quality has since improved, however, the needed procedures were not done in order to secure the water supply from contamination during the transition of water supply change. Despite the transition, reports from some employees the use of the contaminated water continued until mass new reports of the impurity of the water. Along with the damages that occurred from the contaminated water, a growing number of government employees and officials currently are facing scrutiny and possible criminal charges from the decisions made during the management of the new water supply.

I have been alerted to an urgent situation with DC Water’s local hiring initiative program, DC Water Works. It appears that there has been a suspension of communication between your company and the DC Water Works Job Center. They are unable to get any information from your company about applicant status or new job opportunities.

First off, in regards to the car accident occurring, it is obvious that Mr. Drinkwater was driving while intoxicated. This factor is proven in the amount of alcohol that he had consumed in the short period. The fact also leads to a breach of duty by the bar tender. Part of a bartender's job is to know when people have had too much to drink, and/or cut them off after serving them a high amount of alcohol. There is no evidence that the bartender even checked on either on the Drinkwater’s, even when, Mr. Drinkwater fell and the bartender asked if he was injured, which he replied he wasn’t injured. It was clear and obvious that he was intoxicated to the bar tender, enough that he shouldn’t have let him get behind the wheel, especially with passengers who are minors.

From a fall, 62 million was awarded to the construction worker, which is the largest single plaintiff ever awarded to in Queens. Something as simple as a tie-off wasn’t provided for the worker in thus resulted to permeant brain damage and a large lawsuit.

Recent amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act emphasize efforts toward safeguarding the nation's water supplies against attack and contamination. The Terrorist and Other Intentional Actions Section establishes requirements for each community water system serving more than 3300 people to conduct an assessment of the vulnerability of its system to a terrorist attack or other intentional acts intended to substantially disrupt the ability of the system to provide a safe and reliable supply of drinking water. Also, healthy, secure communities require clean drinking water and sanitary waste treatment. EPA provides water utilities with tools and strategies needed to improve drinking water and wastewater system resiliency to disasters and to quickly

For decades, Flint got its water from Detroit Water but in 2013, the Flint city council in order to save money decided to switch the city’s water supply from Lake Huron for which they paid $21 million in 2011 to the Flint river. The switch was made during a state of financial emergency and was supposed to be a cost-cutting maneuver aimed at saving $5 million over a two year period. But once the change was made the water started to smell and taste funny. There was a lack of an effective quality management system approach for changing the water supply as the employees of public water system are supposed to monitor the lead level in water by testing the water in the lead service lines, but Flint quality management failed to do so. Flint had commissioned an evaluation of the river water they were going to use and the results indicated that it would be needed to treat with phosphates to reduce its corrosiveness and this information was forwarded to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), which is responsible for ensuring that Flint follows the Safe Drinking Water Act. but MDEQ didn’t do its job. Also, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality downplayed the complaints made by the residents and the water crisis played out in sight for months and the state refused to acknowledge it

The next claim was the Sara Revett vs Valley Residential Services claim. The claimant alleged an injury to her back while moving a patient at work. Her treating physician has implemented work restrictions. The claimant is also receiving steroid injections at the pain site. The IME doctor sent the claimant for an MRI to review the spinal cord for any issues. None were found. Her treating physician disagrees with these findings and has suggested that a spinal fusion may be necessary. Ms. Burnett recommends that we attempt to settle this claim to avoid any future medical or surgical issues. The Trustees discussed this claim and agreed with Ms. Burnett’s recommendation. Ms. Higgs made a motion to settle the Revett claim for up to $24,500.00. Ms. Oleson seconded, motion carried.

The Cleveland Water Alliance’s (CWA) mission is to “create a cross-sector network to share knowledge and spur innovative solutions to fresh water issues.” CWA’s partners work together to solve the region’s water challenges. Members focus their attention in the areas of economic development, public education and outreach, research, and public policy.

This company must strictly follow state and federal laws and regulations for water treatment to ensure that the water being delivered to customers is safe and clean. People can become sick or slowly poisoned, especially by a high arsenic or fluoride content, if water is not treated properly. Due to mining

(PLACE). DryShield Water Solution Corp. is a professional waterproofing contractor based in Toronto, Canada. They specialize in wet basement repairs including external and internal waterproofing, sump pumps and well installation, and foundation crack injections for commercial as well as residential buildings.

As it was stated, DeBeers was attempting to mislead the public by only providing information about certain water sources that they did not contaminate, but decided to hide information about the ones that had various chemicals in them that were released. (Bridge, 2016) This is quite concerning as mercury and methylmercury, which is a relative to mercury are both highly toxic, and can both pose a danger to not only the animals, fish and vegetation in the area, but humans as well if it builds up in the waterways. Their reports can be used not only with the Ontario government, but with the company as well showing that they previously did not follow their agreements, allowing the community to have a stronger voice during the negotiation process.