Assignment Overview and Objectives

TOPIC:  the Flint water crisis,

Your Problem Analysis is a set of documents that (a) explains a specific, current public health problem that is significant, (b) identifies the audience affected by the problem, and (c) explains the causes, consequences, and history of the problem. Later in the semester, you will write a proposal to solve this problem, so you need to choose a problem that you can write a proposal to solve, a problem that is not too broad, too speculative, or too complicated.

Document types:

Memorandum: 100-300 words

Report: 900-1,200 words

about 8 -9 page

Answer preview

From earlier times, the city of Flint used water from Detroit, and it made use of water from Lake Huron. This was from the 1960’s where the town was a major hub for the vehicle assembly plants in America. However, there have been significant changes in the city’s economy, and this shift came as a result of the reduction in the economy of the area (Baum, Bartram, & Hrudey, 2016). There was a significant shift in the many factories that had been operating in the area, and this also led to a reduction of people in the area…

(2800 words)