Week 6 Objective:Utilize a systems and collaborative approach to evaluate environmental health...

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Week 6 Objective:Utilize a systems and collaborative approach to evaluate environmental health factors affecting the health of a community.Visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's MyEnvironment site athttp://www.epa.gov/myenvironment(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.and enter your city and state, ZIP code, or location into the location box. Explore the site to learn more about your environment and things that might be impacting the health of its citizens.Find some environmental information that you were not aware of for your local area.How is that concern impacting the health of your local community? For example: If a near-by water source is contaminated withE Coli, how could that impact healthy living? Do the local residents know about the issue(s)?What are some evidence-based interventions that a community health nurse can do to address the situation?With whom could a CHN collaborate to ensure optimal community health for environmental issues?You may begin posting to this question onSun, June 9, 2019.

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Running Head: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH	1
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Environment and Things impacting Health of the Citizens of Greenbelt, Maryland — My Water
	I live in Greenbelt, Maryland. I did not know that water we are drinking is impaired. There are eight water stations, which supply water in my area. All of them are polluted with microorganisms. The quality of water is lower than the expected. The amount of Fecal coliform is high (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2019). This is a group of bacteria, which helps to indicate the quality of water. As suggested by Griffith et al. (2016), high amount of Fecal coliform indicates that quality of water is very low. It also indicates that there are harmful pathogens present in water, which can have hazardous impact on health. 
	As noted by Zhang et al. (2015), it has been seen that the most common type of Fecal Coliform is E. coli. Usually small amount of E. coli is harmless and does not cause any harmful impact on health as they are commonly found in digestive system of humans, but high amount of it lowers the quality of health. Water is contaminated with fecal matter, which can have various sources like agriculture runoff,

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