Counter Culture Labs:Environmental Justice Project: Difference between revisions

* members of the lab teamed up to test water quality of local creek, Temescal Creek, at various points using R-cards to test for relative contamination of common bacteria. It is common public understanding that the public bodies of water in the East Bay are likely too contaminated to sustain any community uses (fishing, recreation, local gardening/irrigation, etc.). Considering water is only becoming more precious in the US southwest, diagnosing and solving contamination in public bodies of water will only become increasingly important. while R-cards do not provide diagnostics quantitative enough to give grounds for immediate action, our hope is that this study will at least help build the argument for further action, while demonstrating the effectiveness of investigating microbial presence and implications in additionaladdition to inorganic pollutants.