Name: Giovanni Capece Minutolo

Social Justice Group: Environmental Rights: Water pollution (C)

Date of Fieldwork: April 19, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Eliza Zymuntowicz

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

On December 19th, 2024, we Had an interview with Eliza on water pollution how it affects us, and what can we do to help. Water Pollution affects us because we do not have many ways of accessing drinking water this is due to only a small amount of water being drinkable and fresh most of the other sources of water are frozen in glaciers making it inaccessible.

In our time with Eliza, we also learned how pollution effects us and water animals like fish. Fish get affected by pollution due to loose dirt that gets into fish gills and makes it diffuclt for them to breathe. Water pollution affects the humans due to microplastics that can get into the water or food. Microplastics are bad becuase it can get broken down in our bodies and make us sick.

During this interview Eliza talked about envoirmental racism. Enviormental racism is when Low income comunities have worse reasourses becuase of the better reasourses going to more high income comunities.