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Raising the Bar: Michigan governor, Chicago mayor lead on water rights and advocacy
Less than a year into their first year in office, two Great Lakes region elected officials are making good on their pledges for water...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
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Water Insecurity and Psychosocial Distress: Effects of the Detroit Water Shutoffs
ABSTRACT Background: Water insecurity poses a significant global challenge to health and development. While the biophysical and economic...
Aug 28, 20191 min read
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WATER/COLOR A STUDY OF RACE & THE WATER AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IN AMERICA’S CITIES
It is difficult to overstate the importance of water. Water is life: it is essential for our health, for our food to grow, for our...
Aug 22, 20191 min read
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Detroit shut off water to 11,800 homes this year. Most are still off.
Occupants of more than 5,300 Detroit homes – more than every house and apartment in the suburb of Grosse Pointe Park – went without...
Aug 19, 20191 min read
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#WVBus: Detroit Activists Push City to End Water Shutoffs
Worldview is on the road. Today, our show comes to you from Detroit, where we are broadcasting from Detroit’s public radio station, WDET....
Jul 12, 20191 min read
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How activists are using art and science to address Michigan's water problems
Jannan Cornstalk is a water advocate and a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in northern Michigan. About four...
Jul 10, 20191 min read
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Freshwater Future, Clean Water For All, The Junction Coalition Host Youth Canoe Camp
Freshwater Future in partnership with The Junction Coalition, held a week-long Youth Water Camp in Toledo, Ohio. Youth ages 10-18 from...
Jul 3, 20191 min read
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Mobilizing Health Metrics for the Human Right to Water in Flint and Detroit, Michigan
The ongoing water crises in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, offer dramatic cases of retrogression in realizing the human right to...
Jun 12, 20191 min read
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Mobilizing Health Metrics for the Human Right to Water in Flint and Detroit, Michigan
The ongoing water crises in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, offer dramatic cases of retrogression in realizing the human right to...
Jun 2, 20191 min read
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RiverWiseDetroit - Youth Activists Test for Water Safety
"Youth organizers, mostly students from the Detroit Public Schools, are continuing to raise awareness around access to safe drinking...
Apr 5, 20191 min read
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Medium - Thank you, Miss Michigan, for lifting up the public health threat of lead exposure!
“From the state with 84 percent of the US fresh water but none for its residents to drink, I am Miss Michigan” — Emily Sioma, Miss...
Apr 5, 20191 min read
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NPR - REGIONAL AUTHORITY SPYING ON PEACEFUL OPPONENTS OF WATER SHUTOFFS IN DETROIT
Motor City Muckraker has published an article outlining how “Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) is spying on peaceful opponents of water...
Aug 10, 20171 min read
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HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER RESEARCH GUIDE
THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER: RESEARCH GUIDE & ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY by Jootaek Lee & Maraya Best This guide supports research on the human...
Aug 10, 20171 min read
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DID DETROIT MAYOR’S OFFICE SUPPRESS DAMAGING WATER SHUTOFFS STUDY?
Matthew Kovac of the Great Lakes Beacon interviewed Monica of We the People of Detroit for a story on the potential that the Detroit...
Jul 14, 20171 min read
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BRIDGE MAGAZINE | ARE DETROIT WATER SHUTOFFS AND ILLNESSES RELATED?
Bridge Magazine has published an article on the Detroit water crisis and We the People of Detroit’s co-research project with the Henry...
Jul 7, 20171 min read
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