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CollaborationDrinking WaterGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMinnesotaNew YorkNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration Efforts2024 Election: State and Local Voters Consider Tax Increases for Water Protection
-See how Minnesota and New York stack up against other states across the nation with water on the ballot.
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CollaborationDrinking WaterFlintGreat Lakes News CollaborativeInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsA decade after Flint, feds require nationwide lead pipe removal
-A rule finalized Tuesday gives water providers across the country 10 years to get lead pipes out of their drinking water systems.
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ChicagoClimate ChangeDrinking WaterFeature HomepageIllinoisLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinJoliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake Michigan. Will Other Cities Follow?
-As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution.
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AuthorsCollaborationDrinking WaterFeature HomepageGary WilsonGreat Lakes News CollaborativeGreat Lakes News CollaborativeGroundwater ContaminationLatest NewsNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsGroundwater: Who’s in charge?
-As groundwater resources are increasingly under threat in the U.S. — including the Great Lakes region — regulation, oversight and planning for the long-term are diffused and often lacking.
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CollaborationDrinking WaterGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsRetirements by water and wastewater plant operators are leading to workforce shortages
-Baby boomers are part of a “silver tsunami” of retirements sweeping across the nation’s drinking water and wastewater systems.
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AdvocacyDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeLatest NewsNewsPFASPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinWisconsin Supreme Court to hear case with broad implications for PFAS cleanup
-The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case that could have sweeping effects on state environmental regulators’ authority to force businesses to clean up PFAS pollution under the state’s spills law.
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AgricultureCollaborationDrinking WaterGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsU.S. Movement to Limit CAFO Pollution Emboldened by Michigan Court Ruling
-State Supreme Court strengthens authority to prevent mammoth tide of manure from contaminating water.
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Algae BloomsCollaborationDrinking WaterGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLake ErieLake Erie-EPALatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioThe CheckupWater Quality and Restoration EffortsToxic blooms on Lake Erie still a problem 10 years after Toledo issued a ‘do not drink’ order
-It’s been ten years since Toledo issued a ‘don not drink’ order for its water system for three days due to cyanobacterial blooms near its water intake in Lake Erie. The blooms are not any worse, but they are not any less.
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Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax
-A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating nitrate standards for drinking water alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is flawed.
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AuthorsDetroitDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageGary WilsonGreat Lakes News CollaborativeGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsDetroit legislator takes the long view on Michigan’s water affordability struggles
-“There are people counting on us to get this done,” says Senator Stephanie Chang in a Great Lakes Now interview.
