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Good Water
Up one levelFix a Well, Change the World
Doc Hendley, a former bartender, talks to Dick about bringing clean water to the people of Darfur.
Cattle Drive Away From Texas
Driving cattle away from the wildfires in Texas. Also - providing fresh foods via bus to Chicago neighborhoods.
Good Water: Keeping The Shenandoah
When Jeff Kelble’s Shenandoah River fishing guide business ran into trouble because of fish kills, he had a choice: move on to healthier rivers, or stay and fight. He decided that he couldn’t turn his back on the river - so he took a job as the Riverkeeper.
Good Water: Fighting The Gold Mine
Living with threats, Francisco Pineda led a citizens’ movement that stopped a gold mine from destroying El Salvador’s dwindling water resources and the livelihoods of rural communities.
Good Water: A Marine's Fight
Dick talks to a Marine who thinks water contamination at Camp Lejeune led to his daughter's illness and death. Also - a look back at the Joplin tornado.
Good Water: A Filter That Works
Today in our Good Water series - we focus on technology. We talk with a man who invented a filter that helps millions of people.
Good Water: No More Front Lawns
The first in a series - managing water use in Las Vegas, and exploring a Florida sinkhole.
What's Lost
Ritsuko Robinson grew up right where much of the devastation has taken place in Japan. Slowly she's finding out what has been lost, and who survived. Also: an American parent waits for word on his son. And a mayor sells his home because of groundwater contamination from fracking.
Monkey Wrenching
Tim DeChristopher is on trial this week, for “monkey wrenching” a federal oil and gas auction. Dick finds out what was going on in Tim's head and he checks in with Josh Fox, who made a celebrated film about the dangers of drilling for natural gas using "fracking." Also - two stories about the power of murals.
The Fish Guys
Fishing for key players in a freshwater eco-system, that can ill-afford to lose anything else. And - a family in South Florida gets stuck living alone in a high rise condo building. Plus - celebrating Hanukkah with the first Torah ever created entirely by female scribes.
Clean Water: The Menomonee
Eddee Daniel was exploring his local watershed for a project when he found out officials were moving the river into a new channel since it was too hard to clean the old river. Eddee documented the clean-up for six years as a part of his book Urban Wilderness.
Echoes of Kentucky
The disaster that pushed one couple to demand clean water, and fight environmental degradation in Appalachia. And - an update on Dan Marcotte's need for speed on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Also - one couple's dream of a green home that almost didn't happen.
Making Big Changes
Today - a teen struggling to find his place spends six weeks in a poor village in Honduras. Also - another installment in our clean water series: what mayordomos can teach us about sharing with our neighbors.
A Haitian Success Story
A custodian and taxi driver brings fresh water to his home town in Haiti. Also - Stories of the new auto industry in the South.
Six Months Since the Quake
A special feature on Haiti from WLRN's Under the Sun. Also: fighting CAFOs & saving a church on the Gulf.
Contaminated Well Water
Ron and Kari Craton thought they were buying their dream home for retirement. It's in the small town of Fennville, Mich. But soon after they moved in, their neighbor, Birds Eye Foods, came to the door. They asked to put a test well on the Cratons' property. Months later, it became clear their water was contaminated.
The Soul of Water
Today in Copenhagen, world leaders are gathering for The United Nations Climate Change Conference. In recent years, the writing of one woman has helped bring scientists and opinion leaders a bit closer to understanding changes in the world's water.
Another Look at 'Clean' Energy
Natural gas rigs have long been part of the landscape in the West. Now gas companies are looking to drill on a large section of land in the Northeast. Josh Fox is a filmmaker who lives in upstate Pennsylvania. The more he learned about how natural gas is extracted, the more worried he became about its effect on people's health, the environment, and in particular, the water.
