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The legacy of the Flint water crisis has ripple effects felt in communities like Benton Harbor.
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The director of the state’s environment department faced tough questions from a legislative committee about the drinking water crisis in Benton Harbor.
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Michigan's governor visited Benton Harbor to listen to residents who have been urged to use bottled water because of elevated levels of lead in their tap water.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order to distribute bottled water to residents until further notice, three years after elevated lead levels were first detected in Benton Harbor’s drinking water.
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This is the first time the state has urged the city's residents to avoid consuming tap water.
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Benton Harbor officials first found lead levels above the federal action level in the drinking water in the fall of 2018. The move comes after a coalition of national and local groups called for the federal government to step in and use its emergency powers to provide bottled water to residents earlier this month.
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The city of Benton Harbor reckons with high lead levels in residents’ water. Also, nurses and doctors are working marathon shifts to care for COVID patients. Sometimes the hours aren’t the hardest part of the job. Plus, what conditions are like at one U.P. hospital experiencing an acute staff shortage.
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There was lead in the drinking water in 2018. There was lead in the water in 2019 and 2020. This summer, after a sixth round of testing, there was still…
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is proposing a big investment in the state's Clean Water program, using $200 million of the state's share of federal…
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Benton Harbor High School’s graduation rate dropped nearly 30% from 2018 to 2019.At the end of the 2017-2018 school year, BHHS graduated about 76% of its…