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Drinking water Lead content Michigan Flint Flint (Mich.) Environmental conditions Lead poisoning Michigan Flint MEDICAL / Public Health Physicians Michigan Flint Biography SCIENCE / Environmental Science SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban Water quality management Water quality management Michigan Flint Whistle blowing Michigan FlintHartig, John H.
Summary: "The stories of fourteen people who led efforts to clean up environmentally degraded areas of the Great Lakes are told to inspire others to get involved and care for the place they call home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.72 HARSummary: Investigating a massive chemical spill in West Virginia that left 300,000 people without drinking water for months, filmmaker Cullen Hoback uncovers government and corporate collusion with frightening nationwide public health implications.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHACooper, Candy J.
Summary: Reveals the true story of Flint, Michigan's poisoned water supply, describing how the water crisis unfolded in 2014 and the history of racism and segregation that led up to it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 615.9 COOGleick, Peter H.
Summary: "In The Three Ages of Water, expert on water resources and climate change Peter Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our most valuable resource. Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 GLESummary: "Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years... As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the 'Corps' and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or 'Always Faithful.' When Jerry's nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEM
Botts, Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7394 BOT1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 363.7394 BOT
Siegel, Seth M.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, thinkagain. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.71 SIEKnutson, Julie
Summary: "Human modification of the environment always carries a risk of accident and folly. Explore the causes and consequences of the devastating water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Guided by compelling questions such as, "What led to this disaster?," "Who was impacted by it?," and "What changed in its aftermath?" the interdisciplinary content blends social studies and science. Ultimately, it pushes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Envi KnutsonHanna-Attisha, Mona
Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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2 available in Adult, Call number: 615.9 HANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANNA-ATTISHA, MONA HANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Hanna-AttishaHanna-Attisha, Mona
Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: 615.9 HAN Book Club KitSummary: "Poison on Tap is a compelling case study in how government at all levels can go very wrong and yet shows the power of the human spirit to overcome" - back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2016