A Word: Trouble the Waters

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🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It can take years for a water crisis in a predominantly Black city or town to make national news. But the harms of contaminated water often harm communities for generations. Beyond the ongoing health threats, dirty water can stifle business and economic development, driving down educational achievement, property values and investment. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by journalist Adam Mahoney who has reported extensively on how undrinkable water in hurting Black communities across the rural south. Guest: Reporter Adam Mahoney of Capital B News Podcast production by Ahyiana Angel You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for $15 for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
0:05.4	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:06.9	The lack of clean water in places like Flint, Michigan, and Jackson, Mississippi have made
0:11.0	national headlines.
0:12.5	But many black communities and the rural south are coping with a water crisis.
0:16.3	But they're not getting immediate attention or resources to really fight it.
0:19.9	What's happening?
0:20.9	And what can we all do to help?
0:22.9	Just starting at home, you know, making sure that you're drinking clean water or that
0:27.0	you have access to water filters or your neighbors or your people that you care about just
0:30.8	doing little things like that is how these things get better at the end of the day.
0:35.2	Black America's water crisis coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.
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1:18.8	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else.
1:21.8	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
1:23.6	Flint, Michigan, is coped with contaminated water for the better part of a decade.
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