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Chicago River: From Open Sewer to Crown Jewel?

Henry Henderson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Blair Kamin, Mwrd, Chicago River Sewage, Chicago River, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Daniel Burnham, Chicago River Pollution, Burnham Plan of Chicago, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

While the city and residents have embraced the river, the governmental agency responsible for the waterway continues to turn its back to the river and consider it an open sewer.

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A Day Without Water?

Debra Shore | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lake Michigan Water, Water Conservation, World Water Day, Mwrd, Great Lakes, Water, Green Living, Chicago News
Debra Shore

Our dependence on water links us with much of the rest of creation. So why are we so cavalier about the single element upon which our lives utterly depend?

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Governor Quinn Should Appoint Laurene von Klan to MWRD Vacancy

Jimmy Seidita | Posted 04.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mwrd, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Green Infrastructure, Deep Tunnel, Laurene Von Klan, Chicago News
Jimmy Seidita

The MWRD is a little known entity, but it controls an annual budget of $1.6 billion and operates the largest wastewater treatment plant in the world.

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River Reversal: Chicago's Special Anniversary

Debra Shore | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mwrd, Asian Carp, Chicago River, Water Use, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Water, Chicago Rain Barrels, Chicago Water Supply, Great Lakes Compact, Chicago News
Debra Shore

For Chicago and our region to have a robust economy - and a healthy ecology - for the 21st century, we will be asked to embrace a new paradigm, that of stewardship.

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Storm of the Century

Debra Shore | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Environment, Flooding, Extreme Weather, Cook County Flooding, Chicago River Locks, Mwrd, Chicago Storms, Chicago Weather, Chicago Rainfall, Chicago Flooding, Chicago News
Debra Shore

Why was there so much flooding in streets and homes this weekend? Simply put, the water had nowhere else to go.

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