In Deep

In our final episode of the season, we offer news you can use on lead service lines and bidets, and our producers go head to head in trying to persuade a college student with an avowed lack of interest in water infrastructure to care about it.

Giant engineering projects didn’t solve all of Chicago’s water woes. Intense rainfalls are dumping more water on the city, resulting in more flooding. So what can Chicago do? Some point to green infrastructure.

In the 1990s, lakes and wetlands dried up in Florida’s fast-growing Tampa Bay region. Some attributed the drastic change to drought; others to overpumping of an underground aquifer. A pitched legal battle, known as the Water Wars, played out.

The Water Main conducted the first nationally representative survey measuring how Americans think, feel, and take action on water. See the results.

The Water Main builds public will in support of clean, accessible, affordable water.

New podcast from APM’s The Water Main asks all Americans: “Do you know where your water’s been?”