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Environment
2:09 pm
Tue September 20, 2011

The future of southeast Michigan's drinking water (part 2)

Credit Photo courtesy of Birmingham Public Schools
A wastewater treatment plant.

Detroit’s water department has been under federal oversight for almost 35 years. Recently, the city tried to get that oversight lifted. But the federal judge who monitors the department shot that effort down, and he ordered stakeholders to find a way to fix the system’s decades-long problems--within two months. Some people wonder about that short timeline—and whether some of the Judge’s suggestions hint at a possible takeover. 

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