Report: Water at Michigan Air Force base caused health issues
Wurtsmith Air Force base in Oscoda Charter Township has served as home to B-52 bombers and F-106 fighter jets. During the height of the Cold War, there were even plans to turn it into one of the few...
View ArticleDo you have lead in your pipes and faucets? Here's how you can find out
There are several potential sources of lead in your home plumbing that can get into your drinking water. The service line connecting the water main to your house could be made out of lead The solder in...
View ArticleThree Michigan universities researching the water filters in Flint
The University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Michigan State University have researchers looking into when Flint residents should replace their home water filters. The point-of-use filters,...
View ArticleWater privatization fiasco in South America offers lessons for Michigan
For centuries, residents of the Great Lakes state have been able to take water for granted. But the Flint water crisis , coupled with 70,000 households in Detroit having their water shut off, have...
View ArticleCitizens can be inspired to do more. But Gov. Snyder won't inspire them tonight.
Governor Rick Snyder will deliver his seventh State of the State address tonight. My guess is that not many people will watch or listen; with this speech, they hardly ever do. Abraham Lincoln famously...
View ArticleSmall Mich. city hopes water problems will soon be solved
Rust-colored water that smells like rotten eggs has been coming out of some faucets in the city of Leslie since 2013, according to Leslie city manager Aaron Desentz. And the city has delivered bottled...
View ArticleWe have a lot of old water infrastructure, so what do we do about it?
President Trump called for a trillion dollar investment in infrastructure this week in his address to Congress. The Great Lakes Commission has ideas for where some of the money should go. The...
View ArticleWhat questions do you have about Michigan's drinking water?
Michigan Radio's Issues & Ale series will stop at Bell's Brewery on Tuesday, April 25 from 6:30-8 p.m. to talk about the challenges facing Michigan's drinking water. From water diversion and...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about perfluorinated chemicals, aka PFCs
Grayling water officials announced in July they had found trace amounts of perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, in the municipal water supply. The levels are nowhere near the concentration of PFCs...
View ArticleFlint city council still refusing to approve new water contract with GLWA
With pressure on them building, Flint city council members will sit down with their attorney Tuesday afternoon to discuss their options in their fight against tying the city to a 30-year water deal....
View ArticleMichigan continues to collapse, with no solution planned
More than a quarter of a million people in Michigan’s richest county have to boil their drinking water this week. If you haven’t heard, that’s because a four-foot wide water transmission line...
View ArticleHere's how to find out if you have lead in your drinking water pipes
Ever since the Flint water crisis, Michigan cities and citizens have started paying attention to lead in drinking water pipes and faucets and the potential dangers they pose. You might have lead pipes,...
View ArticleAm I at risk? How do you clean it up? A PFAS expert answers basic questions.
PFAS is an acronym for a group of industrial chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They've been used since the '50s, in everything from firefighting foam to fast-food paper wrappers...
View ArticleGov. Snyder hopes to boost funding for water infrastructure
Gov. Rick Snyder wants to improve the state's water infrastructure by investing $110 million annually to help ensure access to safe drinking water. Snyder's office says Thursday the money would come...
View ArticleMichigan will spend $1.7 million to test for PFAS in public water supplies
Michigan will spend $1.7 million to test water supplies around the state for certain kinds of industrial chemical contaminants. The chemicals are known as PFAS, which stands for per- and...
View ArticlePFAS and related chemicals are everywhere. Here are the potential health risks.
There has been a lot of coverage of PFAS in the news. That's shorthand for per- and polyfluorinated substances, and it’s a class of chemicals commonly found in stain proof, water-resistant, and...
View ArticleWidespread use of PFAS means new contamination sites “almost inevitable” says...
Late last week, Michigan declared a state of emergency in Kalamazoo County. The state told 3,100 residents of Parchment and nearby Cooper Township to stop drinking and cooking with municipal water.
View ArticleDetroit public schools to shut off drinking water due to high copper, lead...
Detroit students won't be drinking out of water fountains when school starts next week. The Detroit Public Schools Community District announced Wednesday that students will be using bottled water after...
View ArticleDoes your kid’s school have lead in its drinking water?
Students across Michigan are heading back to school this month, and in some cities, students won’t be getting their water out of drinking fountains. In August, Detroit Public Schools Community District...
View ArticleDetroit students stage count day walkout to protest school water contamination
A group of Detroit students walked out of class in protest on Wednesday, the same day the state uses student attendance numbers to decide how much per-pupil funding school districts receive. The...
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