Ground Zero:  Iowa’s Water Crisis with Carey Gillam

Impacts on Public Health, Agriculture, and the Nation

Featuring Carey Gillam— Author and Editor-in-Chief, The New Lede

Special guest:  Keith Schneider— Author, Circle of Blue and The New Lede

Tuesday, January 20, via Zoom, we kicked off our first Watershed Talks program of the new year with one of America’s leading environmental journalists, Carey Gillam, and special guest Keith Schneider. Carey and Keith explored the national implications of Iowa’s water-quality crisis—what they’ve learned through years of reporting on environmental and agricultural issues, why Iowa has become “ground zero,” and what it will take to create real, on-the-ground change.

We were honored to welcome Carey and Keith’s insights and perspectives as we continue building a stronger movement for clean water.

About Carey L. Gillam:  Editor-in-Chief, The New Lede; Contributor, The Guardian; Author of Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science; and Author of The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice

About Keith Schneider: Senior Editor & Chief Correspondent, Circle of Blue; Former National Correspondent, The New York Times; Contributor to The New Lede, The Guardian, and Mongabay