Services for Residents and Community Groups

We provide technical support to community members and community groups experiencing drinking water quality challenges and crises. 

We provide independent water crisis response and community technical support:

  • We evaluate water treatment plant and SDWA compliance data to understand and translate the range of issues affecting the impacted community, interpret technical memos, provide independent review of sampling plans, present findings to the community, and serve as a technical resource to impacted communities, 

  • We deliver hands on and virtual training on how water systems work, the Safe Drinking Water Act, general concepts of water quality, and specifics of lead in drinking water,

  • We deliver hands on and virtual training on how to provide community-based oversight for a lead service line replacement program, and

  • We collaborate with community groups to provide drinking water quality messaging, education, and train on engaging with water utilities for mutually beneficial outcomes. 

Get in touch to talk about your needs and how we can help.

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Guest column: Michigan’s new lead rule for drinking water is six years old. How are we doing?
Guest column: Michigan’s new lead rule for drinking water is six years old. How are we doing?

A decade ago, about 100,000 Flint residents were exposed to lead-contaminated drinking water. The Flint water crisis has become a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of negligence and allowing pipe materials that have been banned since 1988 to fester in our water systems. 

If this catastrophe had a bright side, it’s that it led to the revision of Michigan's Lead and Copper Rule in 2018, the nation's most protective regulation aimed at reducing lead exposure in drinking water. 

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