Tag: Flint
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Debate flares over how quickly to replace many lead service lines
Workmen prepare to replace older water pipes with a new copper one in Newark, N.J., on Oct. 21, 2021. Seth Wenig/AP With the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest — and strictest — plan to minimize the risk of Americans drinking lead-contaminated water on the horizon, the debate over whether the agency’s proposed rules go too far…
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Flint STILL Has a Water Crisis—9 Years Later
Jordan Chariton reports from Flint on the 9th anniversary of the Flint water crisis & cover up. “My water has a sewer smell off and on—and black shiny stuff coming out” —Joelena Freeman Imagine for a moment that you and your children are poisoned. The culprit who attacked you is, unbelievably, your own government. The…
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Stanford expert discusses surprising freshwater challenges, potential solutions
Photo: Image courtesy of Jenna Davis Accelerating Water Solutions in the U.S. and abroad If you are like the majority of Americans, you don’t think much of the water you use to drink, bathe, and do other basic necessities. For the approximately two billion people who live in places where water sources are contaminated with…
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‘Water is a human right,’ Democrats say…
…with new bills addressing Flint crisis, Detroit shutoffs Photo: State Rep. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit, introduces a package of water quality and affordability bills on November 12, 2015. LANSING, MI — Flint mom Melissa Mays believes her three sons are starting to struggle in school because they drank contaminated city water, and she’s worried the full…
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A legal loss in Florida’s water war | Editorial
A special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court has said that Florida – not Georgia – is to blame for decimating the oyster industry in Apalachicola. (DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times) A hearing officer has dealt Florida the nearest thing to a fatal blow in its long-running water war with Georgia. In a report…
