By some rivers, seasonal facilities are popping up, with the goal of improving lake sturgeon survival rates and successful natal imprinting.
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Check this Michigan map for childhood lead levels in your community
Overall, the percentage of Michigan children with elevated blood lead levels has been falling for more than two decades, from nearly a third of children tested in 2000 to just 2.5 percent of children tested in 2020. But those statewide gains can be deceptively reassuring.
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Why are so many Michigan water systems finding lead? They’re looking harder
Benton Harbor is likely just the beginning. Since the southwest Michigan community’s prolonged lead-in-water crisis began making national headlines this fall, residents of Hamtramck, Wayne and Manchester have all learned that their water, too, exceeded government lead standards.
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Farm Protection: Ontario invests in projects to help farms improve Great Lakes water quality
More than $2.5 million was awarded from the Ontario government to 19 projects that ranged from green infrastructure projects to helping spread good land management practices.
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Seven Years On: The Flint water crisis has yet to conclude
The Flint water crisis remains at the forefront as the settlement deal waits for approval, the criminal cases are pending, and the city finishes replacing its lead pipelines.
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Drinking Water News Roundup: Minnesota’s salty water problem, aging infrastructure affects taste, Pennsylvania grants
Catch the latest drinking water updates with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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Company formerly known as Nestle drops water withdrawal permit
Blue Triton Brands, formerly known as Nestle Waters North America, has withdrawn its controversial permit allowing the company to extract more Michigan groundwater near Evart, Michigan.
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Nuclear Question: Debate continues over long-term storage of nuclear waste in the Great Lakes
The current storage situation isn’t a long-term one, but the question of where the waste should be hosted and what it means for the impacted community remains hotly debated.
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What is COP26? Here’s how global climate negotiations work and what’s expected from the Glasgow summit
Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the outside, but it’s how international law and institutions help solve problems that no single country can fix on its own.
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Animal Check: New project to monitor aquatic species that live near proposed nuclear storage sites
Nuclear Waste Management Organization and the University of Guelph this summer began a new project to help understand the potential environmental impact of the proposed underground nuclear waste storage sites.
