{"id":8304,"date":"2016-05-01T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=8304"},"modified":"2024-08-21T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:53:30","slug":"sea-science-water-everywhere-charting-the-message-on-water-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/sea-science-water-everywhere-charting-the-message-on-water-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"SEA SCIENCE: WATER EVERYWHERE: Charting the Message on Water Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Cathy Dobbins<\/strong>, the assistant director of strategic alliances at UNC-TV, is the Drinking Water Resilience Interactive Project manager. <\/em>She has 19 years at UNC-TV, where she started out in production, including working with North Carolina Sea Grant on videos and instructional materials. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eric McDuffie<\/strong> is science department chair and a teacher at C.W. Stanford Middle School in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He also serves as the executive director of The PeaceKeeper Foundation, a board member for Environmental Educators of North Carolina, and alumni council member for the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Every time you get water out of a drinking fountain or faucet, you are encountering a small miracle. For most Americans, drinking water is safe and readily accessible with the turn of a faucet handle. People in Flint, Michigan, have learned brutal lessons about what happens when the water system breaks down. More than a billion people around the globe don’t have access to clean and safe drinking water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n