Water Works
"Water Works: An Aquatic History of Milwaukee" is a production of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History and the Milwaukee County Historical Society. In its first season, the show explored the the effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic and the current COVID-19 pandemic on Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In this second season, the show tells the aquatic history of Milwaukee.
Water Works
The River Keepers
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Milwaukee County Historical Society
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Season 2
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Episode 8
Though we can tell a history of Milwaukee's environmental movement, the effort to clean up and preserve our waters is also a story of the present. In this episode of Water Works, our season's finale, historian Jonathon Stuever tells the story of Milwaukee's river keepers.
Water Works is a production of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of History and the Milwaukee County Historical Society. For more information about the show, including photographs and documents from the era, check out milwaukeehistory.net/podcast/.