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  • A U.S. City Just Granted Legal Rights To A Lake

    A U.S. City Just Granted Legal Rights To A Lake

    Crystal Jankowski went into labour during the 2014 water crisis in Toledo, Ohio. The city’s 276,000 residents couldn’t use their tap water at all for a weekend in August — no drinking, bathing, nada. The water, supplied by Lake Erie, had become toxic due to the lake’s dangerous algae overgrowth.