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Science Talk

Flint's Water and Environmental Justice

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The University of Michigan's Paul Mohai, a leading researcher of issues related to environmental justice, talked about the Flint water crisis at a workshop sponsored by the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, attended by Scientific American contributing editor Robin Lloyd.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.1

Welcome to the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk posted on October 17, 2016.

0:37.8

I'm Steve Murski.

0:39.3

On this episode...

0:40.2

And I honestly see this as probably the most egregious case that I can think of for so many

0:46.7

reasons.

0:47.5

One is just a sheer number of people affected, almost 100,000 people.

0:51.7

That's Paul Mohi.

0:53.5

And to tell you about Paul Mohi and where that audio comes from, I'm going to be talking

0:59.1

right now to Robin Lloyd.

1:01.3

She's a contributing editor at Scientific American.

1:03.7

Full disclosure, she's also my wife.

1:06.1

Robin, who's Paul Mohi and where'd the audio come from?

1:09.2

Well, the audio came from a workshop in Detroit in April that I attended.

1:14.2

It was about water infrastructure in urban areas.

1:18.4

The workshop was organized and sponsored by the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources.

1:24.7

And that's where I met Mohi.

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