a day ago1 minCooked: Survival By Zip CodeWe The People of Detroit is honored co-sponsor the film Cooked: Survival by Zip Code. You can watch the film for free over the next 7 days! A panel discussio...
May 131 minKaitlin Popielarz: WPD CRC Member HighlightWayne State alumna and community activist urges Warriors to join the fight against COVID "Community organizers have been going to bat for Detroiters long bef...
Apr 131 minWater shutoffs in sharp focus amid coronavirus outbreak - Taiwanese NewsDETROIT (AP) — The advice is simple and universal: Washing your hands with soap and water is one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of the coronav...
Apr 26 minPublic Health Experts, EJ Orgs. Gather to Urge Michigan Mayors To Turn Water On ASAPStatewide #TurnWaterOn Collaborative Responds to Governor Gretchen’s Executive Order FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detroit, MI (April 2, 2020) – Michigan residents a...
Mar 311 minMICHIGANCOVID-19 PANDEMIC RESOURCE GUIDEThis guide provides information on how to access programs aimed at supporting Michiganders during the coronavirus outbreak. The programs in this guide are su...
Mar 121 minTake These Precautions When Your Water is RestoredAs Detroit and other communities across the state turn the water back on at homes where the water was previously shut off, residents need to know the followi...
Dec 19, 20191 minBankole: City water miscue raises preparedness question "Last week’s boil water alert in Detroit raises questions about how prepared the city’s Water and Sewerage Department — and its affiliated Great Lakes Water ...
Nov 11, 20191 minA Wave of Resurgent Epidemics Has Hit the U.S. Resurgent outbreaks of infectious diseases are sickening thousands, and the causes are societal IN BRIEF: Rising rates of hepatitis A, Legionnaires’ disease ...
Oct 30, 20191 minRaising the Bar: Michigan governor, Chicago mayor lead on water rights and advocacy Less than a year into their first year in office, two Great Lakes region elected officials are making good on their pledges for water rights and advocacy. “R...
Sep 29, 20191 minDETROIT WATER EQUITY REPORT AT A GLANCE Water equity issues in Detroit and the region are systemic. They are not insoluble. Currently, cities across the world are devising and implementing effectiv...
Sep 1, 20191 minWater Insecurity and Psychosocial Distress: A Case Study of the Impacts of the Detroit Water ShutoffWater insecurity poses a significant global challenge to health and development. While the biophysical and economic impacts of inadequate water and sanitatio...
Aug 28, 20191 minWater Insecurity and Psychosocial Distress: Effects of the Detroit Water ShutoffsABSTRACT Background: Water insecurity poses a significant global challenge to health and development. While the biophysical and economic impacts of inadequat...
Aug 22, 20191 minWATER/COLOR A STUDY OF RACE & THE WATER AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IN AMERICA’S CITIESIt is difficult to overstate the importance of water. Water is life: it is essential for our health, for our food to grow, for our communities to function an...
Aug 21, 20191 minWelcome Emily KutilWe welcome Emily Kutil, designer, educator, and researcher at @WeThePeopleDet, as our 2019-20 Banham Fellow. Kutil will study the relationship of land, water...
Aug 19, 20191 minDetroit shut off water to 11,800 homes this year. Most are still off. Occupants of more than 5,300 Detroit homes – more than every house and apartment in the suburb of Grosse Pointe Park – went without running water for one wee...
Jul 20, 20191 minThanks to CEO & President Monica Lewis-PatrickThanks to CEO & President Monica Lewis-Patrick from @WeThePeopleDet for serving on Lead and Copper Rule Advisory Committee -- we really appreciate the input ...
Jul 12, 20191 min#WVBus: Detroit Activists Push City to End Water ShutoffsWorldview is on the road. Today, our show comes to you from Detroit, where we are broadcasting from Detroit’s public radio station, WDET. Mayor of Chicago Lo...
Jul 10, 20191 minHow activists are using art and science to address Michigan's water problems Jannan Cornstalk is a water advocate and a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in northern Michigan. About four years ago, when she lear...
Jul 3, 20191 minFreshwater Future, Clean Water For All, The Junction Coalition Host Youth Canoe Camp Freshwater Future in partnership with The Junction Coalition, held a week-long Youth Water Camp in Toledo, Ohio. Youth ages 10-18 from around the Great Lakes...
Jun 12, 20191 minMobilizing Health Metrics for the Human Right to Water in Flint and Detroit, MichiganThe ongoing water crises in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, offer dramatic cases of retrogression in realizing the human right to water—particularly striking in...