If you are having trouble accessing clean water, food, or other basic necessities, or if you would like to join the cause and help those struggling with water issues, check out these resources:
Community-based Water Resources
- We The People of Detroit
- People’s Water Board
- Clean Water Action
- The Human Utility
- Detroit Water Brigade
- Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
- Great Lakes Environmental Law Center
- Brightmoor Connection Food Pantry
- For the Love of Water
- Michigan Clean Water Campaign
- Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
Other Community-based Resources
- EcoWorks Detroit
- ACCESS Youth & Family Services Center
- Arise Detroit
- Brightmoor Alliance
- Community Development Advocates of Detroit
- Connect Detroit
- Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
- Detroit Food Policy Council
- Detroit Jews for Justice
- Detroit People’s Platform
- Eastside Community Network
- Gleaner’s Food Bank
- Hamtramck Community Initiative
- Huda Clinic
- Michigan Coalition for Human Rights
- Michigan Environmental Council
- Rosa Parks Institute
- Soulardarity
- Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision
- The Youth Connection
- Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Government-sponsored Water Resources
- Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA)
- City of Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD)
- Water Residential Assistance Program (WRAP)
- City of Detroit Office of Sustainability
- Soldiers and Sailors Relief and Michigan Veteran Trust Fund
- THAW Water Assistance Program
Other Government-sponsored Resources
Research on Urban Water Insecurity (Primarily Detroit)
- Water Affordability Plan (2005) created by Roger Colton for DWSD
- We The People of Detroit Community Research Collective
- Shea Howell (Bogg Center) on tracing the history of the Detroit water shutoffs in E-Flux journal.
- Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES) Community Engagement at Wayne State University
- Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL) at the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University
- Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies
- Healthy Urban Waters (HUW) Group at Wayne State University
- Household Water Security Project (Urban Energy Justice Lab at the University of Michigan)
- Institute of Water Research (Michigan State University)
- Water Equity and Security in Detroit’s Water and Sewer District Report, by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society (University of California Berkeley); also see Water Equity Detroit that summarizes the report for a lay audience.
- Water Center at the Graham Sustainability Institute (University of Michigan)
- Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Research Coordination Network, funded by the National Science Foundation
- Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale at Northwestern University
- I Do Mind Dying, by Kate Levy – a documentary about Detroit’s water crisis
- Don’t Touch My Water, by Sarah Johnson & Rowan Minor – a documentary connecting water security issues, produced by the Eastside Community Network and the Nature Conservancy.
- Detroit, Water Not Flowing – a documentary by the United Nations.
- Financing Sustainable Water – a project of the Alliance for Water Efficiency
