FRESH, December 6, 2022: Report Urges Michigan Officials to Adopt Water-Affordability Plan for Low-Income Residents
Nonprofit groups urge Michigan officials to adopt a water-affordability strategy for low-income residents.
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Nonprofit groups urge Michigan officials to adopt a water-affordability strategy for low-income residents.
Water sampling finds no reduction in bloom-producing nutrients.
Mercury, a toxic byproduct of certain industrial processes, may have contaminated over 24,000 sites across the state.
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.
More communities gain access to the largest federal infusion in a half-century.
Customers get cheaper, cleaner water when communities share the cost of infrastructure.
Many of Michigan’s 1,773 cities, villages, and townships are reaching a water infrastructure crisis point.
Failing systems can allow contaminated water to seep through the earth into nearby bodies of water.
Cities around the Great Lakes region struggle with the cost of water maintenance and operation as their populations decline.
Michigan cities rich and poor, big and small have been delaying maintenance on their water systems for decades. Now, even wealthy towns are suffering the consequences of past reluctance to pay for water system upkeep.
Federal and state governments begin to reverse course on underinvestment to address water’s true cost.