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Less than a year into their first year in office, two Great Lakes region elected officials are making good on their pledges for water...

ABSTRACT Background: Water insecurity poses a significant global challenge to health and development. While the biophysical and economic...

It is difficult to overstate the importance of water. Water is life: it is essential for our health, for our food to grow, for our...

Occupants of more than 5,300 Detroit homes – more than every house and apartment in the suburb of Grosse Pointe Park – went without...

Worldview is on the road. Today, our show comes to you from Detroit, where we are broadcasting from Detroit’s public radio station, WDET....

Jannan Cornstalk is a water advocate and a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in northern Michigan. About four...

Freshwater Future in partnership with The Junction Coalition, held a week-long Youth Water Camp in Toledo, Ohio. Youth ages 10-18 from...

The ongoing water crises in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, offer dramatic cases of retrogression in realizing the human right to...

The ongoing water crises in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, offer dramatic cases of retrogression in realizing the human right to...

"Youth organizers, mostly students from the Detroit Public Schools, are continuing to raise awareness around access to safe drinking...

“From the state with 84 percent of the US fresh water but none for its residents to drink, I am Miss Michigan” — Emily Sioma, Miss...

Motor City Muckraker has published an article outlining how “Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) is spying on peaceful opponents of water...

THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER: RESEARCH GUIDE & ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY by Jootaek Lee & Maraya Best This guide supports research on the human...

Matthew Kovac of the Great Lakes Beacon interviewed Monica of We the People of Detroit for a story on the potential that the Detroit...

Bridge Magazine has published an article on the Detroit water crisis and We the People of Detroit’s co-research project with the Henry...