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Aug 28, 20191 min read

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...

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Aug 22, 20191 min read

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...

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Aug 21, 20191 min read

Welcome Emily Kutil

We welcome Emily Kutil, designer, educator, and researcher at @WeThePeopleDet, as our 2019-20 Banham Fellow. Kutil will study the...

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Aug 19, 20191 min read

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...

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Jul 20, 20191 min read

Thanks to CEO & President Monica Lewis-Patrick

Thanks to CEO & President Monica Lewis-Patrick from @WeThePeopleDet for serving on Lead and Copper Rule Advisory Committee -- we really...

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Jul 12, 20191 min read

#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....

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Jul 10, 20191 min read

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...

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Jul 3, 20191 min read

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...

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Jun 12, 20191 min read

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...

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Jun 2, 20191 min read

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...

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Apr 5, 20191 min read

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...

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Apr 5, 20191 min read

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...

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Jan 20, 20191 min read

Detroit women rally to fight for our freedom

Detroit Mich.—On Jan, 19 nearly 1,000 women defied a major snowstorm to rally at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American...

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Aug 10, 20171 min read

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...

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Aug 10, 20171 min read

DETROIT FREE PRESS – EXPERTS SEE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IN DETROIT WATER SHUTOFFS

“A preliminary study conducted by researchers at the Henry Ford Global Health Initiative found that patients who live on blocks that...

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Aug 10, 20171 min read

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...

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Jul 14, 20171 min read

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...

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Jul 7, 20171 min read

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...

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Apr 7, 20171 min read

The Impact of Geographical Water Shutoffs on the Diagnosis of PotentiallyWater-associated Illness...

“The Impact of Geographical Water Shutoffs on the Diagnosis of Potentially Water-associated Illness, with the Role of Social...

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Oct 25, 20161 min read

Preston Welborne inducted to FOX 2 Honor Roll

(WJBK) - Preston Welborne's dream finally came true. He's been working on his short film the past 6 months, and it was finally premiered...

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