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Characters involved in the Flint Water Crisis were Scientists, people of Michigan City, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Setting

Water Flint Crisis started in the year 2014 affecting Flint City in Michigan, the United States leading to change of their water source from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the Flint River.

Basic Situation

The basic situation in the Flint Water Crisis is about environmental Injustice and poor decision making. For more than a century, the Flint River has served as an illegal waste disposal site for treated and untreated local industries refuse along its shores.

Conflicts

The change of the water source was necessitated by the need to save on costs. However, there was a failure to treat the water sufficiently and lead leached from the water pipes into the drinking water. The result was that more than 100, 000 people were exposed to elevated lead levels.

Rising Action

Residents in the city started complaining that drinking water supplied from Flint River had a foul taste, smell and appearance.

The residents protested after founding out about the unsafe water, the United States Environmental Protection Agency denied their assertions claiming that the water was safe.

Rising Action

Again, conclusions made by the team of scientists at Virginia Tech showed that water samples collected from 252 homes through a resident-planned attempt signified citywide lead levels had doubled.

Rising Action

Moreover, there were more disturbing findings reported in 2015 by Flint pediatrician showing incident of increased blood-lead levels in children in the city as compared to the numbers in 2014.

Rising Action

Further, Flint water was contaminated with more than lead. The switch from Detroit to Flint river coincided with an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease which killed at least 12 and 87 more people were taken ill.

Rising Action

Equally, in 2014, scientists discovered fecal bacteria in the City water which was revealed to be as a result of the failure of the responsible agency to maintain sufficient chlorine in its water.

Climax

The failure of the state, federal and city agencies to take care of its people led to a joint which petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to initiate an immediate emergency federal response to the matter.

Falling Action

In 2016, the local residents together with some concerned agencies sued the city and the state officials and demanding for proper water testing and treatment for lead and all the city lead pipes to be replaced.

Falling Action

In addition, the coalition went further to address an urgent need of ensuring all the Flint city residents could access city's free water distribution centers that were safe and bottled or having strong strain installation and maintenance plan.

Falling Action

There are maximum contamination levels which have been determined and set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the water that people use for drinking, cooking, and washing

Resolution

The court ordered for the implementation of door-to-door delivery of bottled water to all home inclusive of correctly installed and enhanced tap filter.

Conclusion

Overall, the FAST Start plan initiated by the city in 2016 was put in place aiming to replace the thousands of lead and galvanized steel service lines connecting Flint water mains to city homes.