drinking water

In the Media

Indignation as Michigan judge drops Flint water charges against GOP ex-Gov Snyder

Dec 12, 2022 nationofchange.org

Environmental justice advocates on Friday condemned a move by a district judge in Michigan to drop two misdemeanor charges against former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder in connection with the 2014 Flint water crisis that killed dozens of residents of...

In the Media

Michigan Judge Drops Flint Water Charges Against Ex-Gov Snyder, Sparking Outrage

Dec 10, 2022 Truthout.org

In the Media

Indignation as Michigan Judge Drops Flint Water Charges Against GOP Ex-Gov Snyder

Dec 10, 2022 CommonDreams.org

News

Leiser and Mills contribute to resources for new Michigan Lead and Copper Rule

Jun 27, 2019

The Flint Water Crisis prompted the state of Michigan to adopt a new Lead and Copper Rule (LCR)—the guidelines that water utilities must follow to ensure the public’s health is protected. The most proactive LCR in the country, the University of...

Leiser and Mills contribute to resources for new Michigan Lead and Copper Rule

In the Media

Policy and Politics Program director talks effectiveness of public-private water systems

Jan 28, 2019 The Michigan Daily

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News

Michigan local leaders assess drinking water issues in latest Michigan Public Policy Survey

Nov 29, 2016

Over a quarter of local officials from Michigan jurisdictions that provide shared water infrastructure believe funding levels are not sufficient to maintain those systems, according to the latest Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), "Local...

In the Media

US agency finds no widespread fracking impact on drinking water

Jun 4, 2015 Financial Times

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CLOSUP Lecture Series

CLOSUP-MML Webinar Featuring Professor Manny Teodoro: Water Affordability - Measurement and Meaning

Jan 29, 2019, 9:30-11:00 am EST

Webinar

This webinar on January 29, 2019 was jointly hosted by CLOSUP and the Michigan Municipal League. The webinar features Professor Manny Teodoro from Texas A&M University, speaking on water and sewer system finance and policy, including how to measure affordability, and policy options for rate structures and related issues.

Student Working Papers

MPPS Policy Paper: Drinking Water Infrastructure

March 1, 2019

Caleb Hogeterp

Michigan has access to some of the largest bodies of freshwater in the world, and is surrounded by more than one-fifth of the world’s surface fresh water (US EPA, 2015). However, the quality of its constituents’ drinking water contradicts this sort...

CLOSUP-MML Webinar with Manny Teodoro on Water Affordability

Jan 29, 2019 0:51:38

This webinar was jointly hosted by CLOSUP and the Michigan Municipal League.

CLOSUP-MML Webinar with Manny Teodoro on Water Affordability