Project/Size: DC Water Capital Improvement Program - $8 Billion Client: DC Water Achievement: Direct the development and management of contracting and employment compliance policies, procedures, and standards for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority’s (DC Water) $8 billion Capital Improvement Program. Mr. Harley leads compliance reviews and audits of more than 100 contractors and vendors on 17 capital improvement projects to ensure procedures are in accord with the Authority, local, state and federal regulations. He created and implemented training protocols that comprised of written documentation guides, media presentations, workshops, and webinars to educate employees, contractors, and other stakeholders on compliance requisites.
The water crisis in Flint Michigan began as early as was as April of 2014. The crisis is concerning a small town called Flint, located at the bottom right of michigan were the majority of the population is African American. The issue began when the town 's water supply witch in past use to come from the detroit river water supply was switched over to the Flint river water supply. People soon began to complain about the taste, smell, and color of the tap water, and of symptoms such as hair loss and rashes from bathing in the water. Even though there were many signs that the water was indeed contaminated, such as when a General Motors plant in Flint stopped using municipal water in October of 2014, claiming that it corroded car parts, the government officials stated that the water was not a threat to the public 's health and safety. However it was later revealed that the water was in fact unhealthy, and contained too much lead. The issue was brought to the eyes of the public when Lee Anne Walters, a Flint resident. This mother of four had seen her family suffer from various alarming symptoms, including abdominal pains, hair loss, and rashes; she also has a son who showed signs of developmental problems. She decided to switch her family to bottled water, and the symptoms abated. Finally, in February of 2015, she demanded that the city test the tap water. A federal investigation was launched and the results came back shocking. The water was extremely toxic containing 400 parts per billion of lead. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), there is no safe level of lead in drinking water, but the maximum allowed by law is 15 parts per billion. Virginia Tech professor and engineer Marc Edwards, an expert on municipal w...
Metro Atlanta is on a collision course with reality – and the shock of this collision will have profound political and economic implications for future growth throughout the Southeast. The core problem is that Atlanta’s runaway growth will soon outstrip the available water supply (Corps, 1998). And if Atlanta continues to increase its water consumption until the maximum limits are reached, the effects on downstream users will become catastrophic, both economically and environmentally.
Fact: Arizona is in a 10-year drought. Fact: The city of Phoenix has a water problem that has nothing to do with lack thereof. A hundred years ago or more humans would just drink from a river or stream, but today we need purified, cleansed, and filter water. We do, as a state have a water treatment system in place but the faculties periodically need maintenance and must be shut down to receive it. The Water Department and their puppet master Frank Fairbanks the city mangers have been playing Russian roulette with the citizen of Phoenix. The bet you ask, will the shut down of facilities due to maintenance leave the citizens of Phoenix with a contaminated water system. We learn the answer to that question on the 25 of January the city council and water department both lost that bet. The water supply was contaminated, water had to be boiled to make in safe and long showers were not advisable. How can we as voters keep this from happening again? The short answer is building another water treatment facility, for the details read on.
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Jenny, who was a recent MPA degree graduate, had gotten her dream job at a local county government agency. During her first year of employment, she noticed that funds from grants were being mismanaged and misallocated, and some of her coworkers were also abusing their employment privileges by using county-owned materials, vehicles, for personal uses, which is a violation.
Overall, the prospects of accountability-based reforms taking hold and becoming institutionalized are fairly good. Based on the Fernandez and Rainey framework for organizational change we see that the two steps chosen to assess accountability-based reforms in the OPD show that reforms have internal support because it improves collaboration between top managers and lower level officers by creating more manageable districts that have one go-to person that has all the responsibility. The two accountability-related tasks I chose to examine also show signs that the requirements by the court-ordered monitor show either partial or full compliancy, pointing to an upward trajectory of the institutionalization of accountability-based reforms.
When first taking office one of his first steps was inviting DC residents to a citizen’s summit where they were asked to define and rank priorities. He had a great focus on improving the city’s basic services, which have been failing to meet the public’s needs. He set out to achieve his mission through his strategic plan for the city that consisted of 5 strategic priorities: “building and sustaining neighborhoods; strengthen children youth and families; making government work; promoting economic development; enhancing unity of purpose and democracy.” After working with citizens to
Having put these specific guidelines in place the supervisor should work with their boss or corporate office to ensure that the guidelines are
The government always has various projects to be undertaken for the benefit of the nation, and the projects require proper cost allocation of the available resources. This is done to identify repayment responsibility with the respect to recovery, cost sharing or both. The federal government makes cost allocation with an aim of deriving an equitable distribution of project costs among authorized project purposes, or the proposed for authorization. The laws and requirements that requires cost sharing or reimbursement specifies recovery of cost incurred for the service. This makes cost allocation necessary for most federal multipurpose projects having reimbursable purposes (U, S Army Corps of Engineers, 1998).
...y with their associates regarding wages, benefits and other conditions of employment. The company also provides equal opportunity for all associates, with no tolerance for discrimination. Moreover, all the associates comply with all the applicable laws, regulations and other employment standards. The company requires their partners, suppliers, contractors, and vendors to support these polices through adherence to our Supplier Code of Conduct.
There is a global shortage of drinking water. A person might wonder how this can be if seventy percent of the earth’s surface is covered by water. Most of the Earth’s water is unsuitable for human consuption. Ocean water is salt water, which makes up 97.5% of all water on the planet. Freshwater is only 3.5% of all the water on Earth. Drinking water is sourced from bodies of freshwater.
Water Scarcity is harmful to human life because when water is poorly managed throughout the world, those who need water are deprived of nutrients they truly need causing them to die. This eventually affects the global population. Therefore many experts have proposed several solutions such as the LifeSaver Bottle, TrojanUVPhox treatment system, and Waste Water Recycling.
“Water is the lifeblood of this planet. Every time a good is bought or sold there is a virtual exchange of water. Every time we interact with water, we change it, redirect it, or otherwise alter its state. We have never learned how to efficiently manage water.”(Cluckie, 2009) Ian Cluckie, Professor of Hydrology and Water Management, emphasizes the fact that humans can’t survive without water. Although water is a renewable resource that can replenish under hydrological cycles, our intervention has interrupted its natural cycle causing its supply to decrease.(Cluckie, 2009)