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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterLatest NewsLeadMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeCheck 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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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterFeature LeadInfrastructureLatest NewsLeadMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWhy 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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AgricultureBrian OwensFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsOntarioScience, Technology, ResearchFarm 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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Drinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFlintLatest NewsLeadMichiganNatasha BlakelyNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsSeven 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 WaterDrinking Water News RoundupIndianaLatest NewsLeadMichiganMinnesotaNew YorkNewsPennsylvaniaWater Quality and Restoration EffortsDrinking 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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Andrew ReevesDrinking WaterFeature HomepageLake HuronLake OntarioLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeQuebecU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsNuclear 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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Feature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsLake HuronLatest NewsNewsOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologySharon OosthoekAnimal 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.
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Feature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsKathy JohnsonLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologySturgeonWisconsinSturgeon Restoration: Studying Michigan’s and Wisconsin’s current flourishing populations
-In the few locations in the Great Lakes where lake sturgeon still spawn successfully, restoration efforts are focused on studying and managing those existing populations or boosting low populations.
