Podcasts
MSU scientist seeks more monitoring to protect our water
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Joan Rose, recent winner of the Stockholm Prize for water, discusses the difficulty and importance of measuring water quality worldwide.
Videos
Faces of Flint: St. John Vianney Catholic School students
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How the Flint water crisis has changed the lives of the city’s children, from their perspective.
Catch of the Day
Poll: Public perception divided on Great Lakes health trend
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About half identify pollution as the region’s greatest threat.
Podcasts
Faces of Flint: Family touts city’s pockets of promise
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The Herman family is still proud to call Flint their home.
Echo
Faces of Flint: Rapper Mama Sol uses music to uplift community
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WKAR’s Faces of Flint series kicks off with the story of hip hop artist Mama Sol, who was born and raised in the city of Flint. She’s using her music to uplift her hometown while it struggles to recover from the water crisis there.
Water
Great Lakes cities swallow streams
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Study shows Great Lakes are home to the largest collection of riverless urban areas.
Chicago View
Environmental issues beyond Flint loom for Michigan’s embattled Snyder
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Urban contamination, a controversial pipeline and a Great Lakes diversion proposal are all on his plate.
Water
Blame, deny, repeat; EPA’s pitiful testimony on Flint makes even Snyder look good
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Politics trump citizens of Flint as EPA administrator refuses to accept any responsibility for water mess.
Art
Below the surface: Great Lakes invaders
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A new book explores the uphill battle against the worst Great Lakes invaders and praises the people who research them.
Commentary
Public Health Crisis? Nah.
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That deluge of state pronouncements, announcements, advisories and denouncements about Flint water reflects a misperception that better PR is — if not a solution to the poisoning of a city, at least a priority deflection of too-slow-to-act criticisms and of the unfavorable and unwelcome international media attention the crisis continues to draw.