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This article brings Newark’s water contamination problem up, specifically the amount of lead found in recent studies. Newark’s water was found to have three times the amount of acceptable lead in its tap water, but no specific locations were give as to what places are being affected by this contamination. Newarks Water Department will be required to take actions such as testing public school water supplies, changing lead pipe lines, and maintaining more accurate maintainence schedules and records. By holding people accountable, Newark is changing its vulnerability towards water contamination 

The author used the census to accurately make the statistics needed to back up the main argument.

The article addresses the public health by showing that people can not afford daily necessities such as hosptial bills and things of that nature.

To control this is to create more job oppurtunities for black and low-income families.