Chicago Tap Water Web-Map
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Project title:
Chicago Tap Water Web-Map
Funding:
CityXones
Principal Investigator:
Moira Zellner
Co-principal Investigator:
Ahoura Zandiatashbar
Project summary:
CityXones curates the best local news and puts it into context and disseminates through web-tools and mobile apps.
Where do you get your water? Find out using UDVL-CityXones Water Web-Map
UDVL and CityXones collaboratively developed an interactive map which allows citizens to track the source, price, users, and other information about their tab water. Crain’s Chicago Business (a digital news outlet which offers daily insights and information about Chicago’s communities) also used this map in a story in their special report in Crain’s Forum. The map illustrates that a fair amount of Chicago-area communities don’t get their water from Lake Michigan, but get from aquifers. In the link you can also read more on where collar counties are running out of water from depleting aquifers.