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Nestle Wins and our Great Lakes Lose
Last week, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality did the unthinkable; they ruled in favor of Nestle in their controversial bid to double the amount of water they pump for next to nothing and sell back to us.
How Big Oil is Using Big Bucks to Put Our Great Lakes at Risk
Three million gallons of sewage, a contaminated river, and Michigan’s water infrastructure woes
Last week, Saginaw Township’s wastewater retention and treatment basins overflowed. After just over two inches of rainfall stressed the outdated sewer infrastructure to its failing point, over three million gallons of partially treated sewage was released into the Tittabawassee River.
E. coli levels in the river were already astronomically high, over seven times the state standard of 300 organisms per 100 mL of water. The influx of three million gallons of sewage brought E. coli levels in the river up to nearly eight times the state standard. The Tittabawassee River meets the Saginaw River