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The Year in Water, 2022

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The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth.

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Five Fixes for Michigan’s Drinking Water Woes

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Five Fixes for Michigan’s Drinking Water Woes The Great Lakes News Collaborative asked state and national experts how Michigan could break the cycle of underfunding and poor decision-making that has left water systems across Michigan in sorry shape. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging.

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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

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September 20, 2022 . The expansion of industrial-scale farming in the basin, plus rainstorms made worse by climate change, have caused the blooms to surge in recent years. Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most Algae blooms are hiking the cost of water for people already struggling to pay their bills.

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Some Michigan Water Systems Are Overbuilt, Underfunded. Are Mergers The Answer?

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Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., It means that vulnerable systems are even more at risk in a changing climate. As the nation prepares to pour hundreds of billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems, the Great Lakes News Collaborative investigates the true cost of water in Michigan. .

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science Union of Concerned Scientists PaulaR Thu, 06/08/2023 - 03:44 Friday, August 14, 2015 Read more Deborah Bailin Almost 130 years ago, Coca-Cola first quenched Americans’ thirst and splashed its irresistible blend of sugar and, yes, cocaine , across our taste buds and brains.

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