Yes, global water crisis is an environmental justice issue because parts of the world are having droughts and the global warming crisis that is happening is tragic.

I have known about the Flint water crisis through the media but never really knew all the facts about the problem. From doing this project, I learned more information that I was not aware of like that the crisis began from budget cuts. This is a terrible situation but not that surprising how long it is taking to overcome this because of what seems to be incompetents from the government. I think that this global water crisis is an environmental justice problem because it affects the environment that we live in and has affected many people’s health as result.

The global water crisis is one of the clearest displays of an environmental justice issue. While doing our research most issues had a trend pertaining to the lack of response from the people intended to manage it, city or state government. Specifically, in Flint’s water crisis, it was said that the city had to repeatedly be taken to court to progress a few steps further each time even after 18 months of being ignored.

Before doing extensive research on the global water crisis, I found to my surprise a lot of people don’t have safe drinking water in many countries. I always knew Mexico had unsafe tap water, if you aren’t native to Mexico drinking tap water is a danger to your body. Native Mexicans are able to drink this tap water without being affected because their body built immunity to the bacteria in the water. Learning that Mexico is suffering a drought left me to wonder what would they do when there’s no water in a couple of years? how does the government plan to fix this? The government has a plan to create ” artificial rain ” to increase rainfall but this has effects on the biosphere and increases ocean acidification so is it really a solution? With that being said I believe that yes, the global water crisis is an environmental justice issue. I can argue this because low-income countries and people don’t have access to safe drinking water and it’s a human necessity. The government of these countries isn’t doing enough to ensure these people have water. We only heard about this issue in poor countries and neighborhoods, the rich never have to worry about unsafe water or having water period. Change is needed and, it starts with us. we are the change.

Before researching more about the water crisis in Mexico, I didn’t even know the government took action in doing things such as creating “artificial rain” I did’t know that was possible and I found that interesting. I also found it interesting that there are so many different water crisis around the world that aren’t being addressed and are worsening. With water being such an essential, I think these water crisis’ needs to be taken more seriously. I do believe the global water crisis is an environmental justice issue because the definition of environmental justice is the fair treatment of all people despite race, income, origin and the enforcement of environmental laws. I think These water crisis’ are being overlooked in certain minority groups and there needs to be actions taken that’ll prevent these countries from having to deal with such a problem such as not having clean or even enough water. There need to be laws put in place to protect and support those that have been dealing with water crisis for more than a certain amount of time, if any time at all.

After researching the global crisis Kenya has faced my stance on global water crisis’ relationship with environmental justice has been reaffirmed. Water is an absolute necessity that is required to live. We as humans have the power to solve these water crises. I fully believe that the only reason why we don’t is that people don’t want to invest so much time effort and money into these things instead of their own societies. There are many instances of us in fact actually adding or creating these water crises for profit on numerous occasions. I have hope however and learning about how the people in Kenya work to overcome their situation lets me know there aren’t situations like this unfixable.