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Great Lakes Odyssey - October 28, 2023

One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station on July 11 captured this high oblique view of Lake Michigan (left) and Lake Huron and much of the state of Michigan in between.
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One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station on July 11 captured this high oblique view of Lake Michigan (left) and Lake Huron and much of the state of Michigan in between.

This week on Great Lakes Odyssey: Water, Water Everywhere, Not a Drop to Drink

The struggle to maintain and access clean drinking water stirs community action throughout the Great Lakes.

Forty million people in the Great Lakes Basin see their source of fresh water facing unprecedented challenges. We hear voices for the water. Nayyirah Shariff, Director of Flint Rising, has chronicled the water crisis in that city for years and she reports the story. Ansley Simpson of Alderville First Nation delivers scintillating song and voice on her take of the Lakes' past and current state. Barton Bund is an actor turned documentary filmmaker, an 'actorvist' he says, upon learning environmental truths about Line 5. With music from Cindy Doire.