{"id":275,"date":"2016-12-15T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=275"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:42","slug":"water-app-offers-essential-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/15\/water-app-offers-essential-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Water app\u00a0offers essential info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers on the Ann Arbor and Flint campuses have developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/google-funded-app-helps-flint-residents-find-lead-risk-resources\">new Android app to help Flint residents<\/a> during the ongoing water crisis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywater-flint.com\/\">MyWater-Flint<\/a> is an interactive guide that lets people pinpoint homes with a greater risk for lead, and also shows where lead has been found in city water. Users can see where pipes have been replaced or are currently being worked on, a map of water distribution centers, and it even explains how to get water tested. &#8220;We&#8217;ve developed an essential resource,&#8221; says <strong>Jake Abernethy<\/strong>, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UM-Ann Arbor. &#8220;It&#8217;s an independent platform that gives people information they need and want to know as they navigate this complex situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers on the Ann Arbor and Flint campuses have developed a new Android app to help Flint residents during the ongoing water crisis. MyWater-Flint is an interactive guide that lets people pinpoint homes with a greater risk for lead, and also shows where lead has been found in city water. Users can see where pipes\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/15\/water-app-offers-essential-info\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,17],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-apps","tag-flint"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"excerpt-thumbnail":false,"themonic-thumbnail":false,"ioslider-thumbnail":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"400x250-crop":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A team of researchers on the Ann Arbor and Flint campuses have developed a new Android app to help Flint residents during the ongoing water crisis. MyWater-Flint is an interactive guide that lets people pinpoint homes with a greater risk for lead, and also shows where lead has been found in city water. Users can&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}