Documentary draws on solutions reporting about water affordability

A professor at Ohio State University said his documentary about water systems and affordability (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzYxEFtYEHI) was influenced by the reporting of the 22-member news collaborative in Northeast Ohio (https://www.neosojo.com/) known as NEO SoJo. Ramiro Berardo, professor of environmental and natural resources policy, said NEO SoJo’s stories about the aid that’s available to help people pay utility bills were especially invaluable (https://www.neosojo.com/blog/neo-sojo-stories-featured-in-water-for-all-documentary). “The issue is not that these programs don’t exist,” he said. “The issue is they do exist but people are not accessing them.”