Clean water, human rights, and good news!

This week host Amanda is doing a GOOD-NEWS ONLY special apology episode. We can't help it that we doomscroll, which can make it increasingly feel like there's only badnews, but in the last week there's been a lot happening, especially in the climate and human-intrest world. Amanda calls up some of her friends to apoliguze for bad-news-dumping, and try to make it up with postive stories about drinking water in Flint Michigan, a landmark ruling from the International Court of Human Rights, and about the Seine open to public swimming again!~

Read along with us: 

The completion of Flint's water pipes: 1. Flint replaces most lead pipes 10 years after the Michigan water crisis  (Matt Lavietes, NBC), 2. Flint's still-unfinished lead pipe replacement serves as a cautionary tale to other cities (Michael Phillis and Tammy Webber, AP)

A stable climate is a human right: 1.  Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules (Isabella Kaminski, The Guardian)

The Seine opens for public swimming: 1. River Seine reopens to swimmers in Paris after century-long ban (Thomas Mackintosh, BBC), 2. You Can Swim in the Seine Again. Trust Me. I Just Did. (Catherine Porter, The New York Times)