By Molly Cassidy and Andrew Atwal
Every Monday Great Lakes Echo runs video clips of random people answering questions that experts believe environmentally literate citizens should understand. In the last clip an expert explains the correct answers.
This week’s question: “Where does your water come from?”
Give a shot at an answer. See what the people in the video think and then get the straight story from our expert.
This week’s expert is Joan B. Rose, the Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, co-director of the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment and the director of the Center for Water Sciences — all at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich.
No wonder it is so hard to protect water quality – people do not understand where it comes from and how to protect water.
Water is the greatest opportunity for the Great Lakes economy.
Because water is generally good, cheap and abundant in the Great Lakes – most people take it fro granted…
Lake Michigan… Our City water was contaminated by solvants from dry cleaning. When a local industry contaminated the water on the outskirts of town, the City solved the problem by making drinking wells within the city illegal. The DEQ tried to clean the water table using a technique (honest) called “bubble and suck”, where water was sucked up and aereated…. Water in the Country is contaminated with Nitrate from farming. Now FRACKING has come to the head-waters of our Great Rivers of Michigan!