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Risky Drinking Water Pathogen Has Outsized Effect on Black Americans

A new analysis shows that rising Legionnaires’ disease cases disproportionately affect Black Americans and people living in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and New England.

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Top 10 Fish to Catch: Great Lakes means great fishing

Does your favorite fish make the list of favorites to catch on the Great Lakes?

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Drinking Water News Roundup: New DNA computer can reveal water contaminants, HydroOne team works on oil spill cleanup

Catch the latest drinking water updates with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.

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Canada’s Maude Barlow chronicles 40 years of activism in new book, “Still Hopeful”

With hope as her mantra, Barlow describes her obsession with water, her outreach to Detroit and the myth of water abundance.

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Breaking up: Ice loss is changing one Anishinaabe fisherman’s relationship with Lake Superior

Respect for water was as much a part of Phillip Solomon’s fishing education as sawing through thick winter ice. The Anishinaabe fisherman can see how rising temperatures are changing Gitchigumi and the fish his community relies on.