November 7, 2019 This week: Martin Luther King III Visits Flint and Detroit to Address Water Justice +Pipeline Company Lacks Insurance to Cover Great Lakes Oil Spill+ Ohio Women Leaders Discuss Water + High Lead Levels Found in Canada’s Drinking Wate + Share your thoughts about the health of the Great Lakes with the International […]
Read MoreOctober 18, 2019 This week: WI Tribe Says No to Lease and Money for Pipeline + Radio Show Highlights Ohio’s Drinking Water Threats + Ontario Marina Installs Waste System that Removes Micro-Plastics Wisconsin Tribe Says No to Lease and Money for Pipeline Awhile ago we shared that the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa sued […]
Read MoreOctober 3, 2019 This week: Worrisome PFAS Levels Found in Drinking Water Supplies from Lake Erie + Oil Pipeline Denied Water Certification + Plastics as Part of Our Geology Worrisome PFAS Levels Found in Drinking Water Supplies from Lake Erie Two municipal drinking water systems in Michigan, Monroe and Frenchtown test results found PFOS at 16 […]
Read MoreAuthor, Dominga Grace is a resident of West Toledo and a University of Toledo public health student. Dominga participated in a Youth Water Summit this past June sponsored by Junction Coalition and Freshwater Future. The water crisis was a result of a toxic algal bloom bearing down on Toledo’s drinking water intake pipe. It […]
Read MoreIn the United States, many of us don’t have to go far to access a source of drinking water. We take for granted that just down the hall, there is a water fountain or sink faucet ready to spout out cold water to fill our glasses. In fact, most people reading this right now probably […]
Read MoreWhen I moved to Wisconsin from Virginia I knew there would be a few things I would have to get used to: the lack of mountains (seriously Madison is so flat I can see halfway to Chicago from my 12 story apartment building), the midwest kindness (move over southern hospitality Wisconsinites will bless your heart […]
Read MoreEach day, 4.8 million bottles of water leave Nestlé’s packaging plant in Stanwood, Michigan and end up neatly stacked one-by-one in gas station coolers across the Midwest. If you’ve sipped from an Ice Mountain-branded bottle in the last decade, you’ve sampled a tiny fraction of the 3.4 billion gallons that’s been pumped from nine wells […]
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