This Week: Private Water Company Will Pay $25M Settlement for Flint Water Crisis; Join our Monthly Giving Circle; Michigan’s Legal Battle Over Livestock Farm Pollution Permit; Forest Service Grant Allows Wisconsin to Acquire Pelican River Forest; Spring Project Grants are Open; Climate Innovation Town Hall Featuring Freshwater Future February 13th!
This Week: LAST CHANCE: Urge the U.S. EPA to Protect Families from Lead in Drinking Water by February 5th; Happy World Wetlands Day! Celebrating the Great Lakes Wetlands; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees: WaterLegacy; Buy a Lead Water Testing Kit and Get a Free Bag of Coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co.; Climate Innovation Town Hall Featuring Freshwater Future February 13th!
This Week: Help Improve U.S. EPA’s Public Participation Policy; Improving Federal Lead Rules: Stronger Protections Needed in Schools and Childcare Facilities; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees; Record Low Ice Cover on the Great Lakes this Winter; Line 5 Update; Keweenaw Bay Tribe May Be Compensated for Stolen Land
This Week: Last Chance! Workshop to Use Your Voice to Push for Safer Water; Take Action! Help Improve U.S. EPA’s Public Participation Policy; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees Working for Water Justice in Benton Harbor; Ohio’s New Road Salt Reduction Grant Program; Transport Canada funds innovative research to prevent spread of invasive species in Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released their draft version of the new Lead and Copper Rule Improvements. This rule will guide how local, state, and federal governments prevent and respond to lead in our drinking water.
This Week: Giving the Gift of Clean and Safe Water; Chicago-Joliet $1B Agreement and Concerns for Great Lakes Water; Land Swap Threatens Wisconsin Lake Michigan Coastal Park; Ohio State Parks Opened Up for Fracking; The Edmund FitzGerald and the Gales of November in the Great Lakes
This Week: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Minnesota’s Water System Funding; EPA Deems Clean Up of the Catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio Finished: Is it Enough; Water Watchers and Wellness, November 16th; Freshwater Future in DC: Advocating for Real Outcomes from the Farm Bill; Canada Announces Funding for Projects Restoring Great Lakes Areas of Concern; The Crushing Weight of Water Rates in Michigan–Solutions Exist
This Week: Agencies Discuss Condemning and Cleaning Up the Erie Coke Site; All About Water Convening Key Takeaways; New York City’s Lead Service Lines Impact Hispanic/Latino Communities; Biden Administration’s Report Recommends Privatization of U.S. Water Systems; Lake Erie’s World Water Spout Record
All About Water speakers lent their expertise to discuss the threats of water unaffordability, loss of control over our drinking water systems, PFAS and lead poisoning, and harmful algal blooms as well as offer critical advocacy solutions.
President Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council recently issued a report advocating for the privatization of the nation’s water systems. These recommendations ring alarm bells for our Great Lakes communities and beyond. Freshwater Future firmly believes that privatization poses a significant threat to our region’s water security and accessibility.
