CCAS is hosting an event with Omar Alshogre, a human rights advocate and former detainee in Syria, and Muzna Duried, a Senior Program Development Officer at The White Helmets. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Marwa Daoudy, Associate Professor, CCAS/SFS. Register here. Omar Alshogre is a Syrian public speaker and a human rights advocate. […]
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Replacement of lead pipes has become a hot topic of late, and Mayor Charles Lombardi, who leads of the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns, says
NORTH PROVIDENCE – This town has been leading the field since 2017 on addressing lead pipe issues, and now has an opportunity to put an even bigger dent in its
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Written by Maureen Cunningham and Olya Egorov
25th February 2021
“We move Heaven and earth,” says Montana Birt. A transplant from Georgia, Birt is a pastor in a local church in Thorp, Wisc., the smallest of cities with a population of just more than 1,600. His more earthly endeavor, however, involves digging up and replacing lead pipes that threaten to poison his neighbors’ water in Thorp and in Eau Claire, Wisc., about 40 miles west.
We met Birt in the course of examining lead service line replacement programs in municipalities across the country. Big cities like Newark
, N.J., or Denver often grab the headlines for their programs, but we set out to learn what smaller municipalities with lead pipes are doing to replace them.