This Week: Join Us June 20th for Freshwater Future’s Virtual Monthly Wellness Session; Deadline June 12th: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Wisconsin’s Water System Funding; Benton Harbor Residents Face Shutoffs for Unaffordable Water Bills Help is Hard to Get; Nearly 400 Gallons of Diesel Fuel Spill into Lake Superior at Silver Bay Marina, MN
For Immediate Release: Assistance for Benton Harbor Water Shutoffs Fails Residents
Residents of Benton Harbor are receiving notices of water shut off for the first time since the city’s contaminated lead pipes were removed and replaced.
Freshwater Future Weekly News: May 31, 2024
This Week: Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction – Bids Close Tonight; Monday: Tell the EPA What Water Affordability Means; Minnesota’s Public Waters Win Further Protections
U.S. EPA Water Affordability Need Assessment Public Listening Session – Talking Points
U.S. EPA wants to hear from communities and advocates exactly how unaffordable water impacts you and what solutions you see. Your voice matters! Please plan to attend and share your and your community’s issues with water affordability. Below are Freshwater Future’s priority concerns we have identified in our years of work on addressing the water affordability crisis:
Freshwater Future Weekly News: May 24, 2024
This Week: Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction; Petition – Tell the White House and U.S. EPA to Finalize the Lead and Copper Rule ASAP; Maternal Health Awareness Month: Join Wisdom Institute Listening Partners!
Freshwater Future Weekly News: May 17, 2024
This Week: Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction; Register for Next Week’s Mindfulness and Movement Monthly Wellness Session; Petition: Tell the White House and U.S. EPA to Finalize the Lead and Copper Rule ASAP; Freshwater Future at River Rally: Heroes, Lead Education, and Water Affordability!
Freshwater Future Weekly News: May 10, 2024
This Week: Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction Starts May 17th; Register for Freshwater Future’s May Mindfulness and Movement Monthly Wellness Session; Reflections and Recording from Great Lakes CAFO + HABs Conference; Minnesota State Park to be Shuttered for Iron Mine;The Cost of Climate Change in Canada: $139B in Next 30 Years
Freshwater Future Weekly News: May 3, 2024
This Week: Register for Freshwater Future’s May Mindfulness and Movement Monthly Wellness Session; Celebrate National Drinking Water Week – May 5-11; Protect our Waters from Microplastics; Fighting Privatization and Commodification: The Future of Water Act is Public!
Trading Water as a Commodity is Risky!
Trading Water as a Commodity is Risky! Currently the state of California has the world’s first and nation’s only water…
Freshwater Future Weekly News: April 26, 2024
This Week: Earth Day is Every Day: Six Simple Actions You Can Do to Protect Water; You Can Still Virtually Attend the Great Lakes Harmful Algae Conference May 1-2; Save the Date: Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction; Sign the Petition and Stand with Pennsylvania: Our Water is Not for Sale; Forested Wetland to be Destroyed for Landfill After Years-Long Fight