Obligatory intro:
Being the cleanest country in the world, the most civilized, the political beliefs in the US could not be farther apart.
"Let us clean up the air, water" vs "Let us wallow" (I'll edit this)
So today's ROTD wonders about political beliefs and water quality.
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| ??? from Ohio |
The bombasticity (Turgidity?) of a blog analyzing the country's water would be stifling, and plus, it doesn't take bottled water into account.
But a list of states by polluted water, laid next to a list of arch-red states, would be welcome at this point, and someone has thought of it first and written it better, only I can't find it.
The pattern emerging is that local governments declare their water to be clean, while everyone else writes horrifying blogs no one really reads.
Bridges are one thing, but water matters too.
There's this little town flooded by sewage...that pops up in human interest stories once in a while.
The impossibility of helping such a town, thanks to potential lawsuits,(This is a very complicated sentence that I've really screwed up;https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article254415408.html isn't actually a subject I was trying to get into, it just floated by in my head.
1600 volunteers and a rich guy to supply equipment, ain't gonna happen (is what I meant), they *could* get sued by both sides.
The money the town will get, will go to salaries and buildings, and the flooded effluence is sort of a purple heart for the mayor; clean stuff up and the money might dry up as well.
(INMHO)
If the EPA shows up to take pictures, then someone sends trucks to suck sewage. The reports seem to have stopped a year or so ago.
So I don't know what if anything was done, besides pictures.
Some pumps look new and shiny (in the pictures,) some are rusted and don't work.
One of the biggest solutions from the local government so far was to subsume Centerville into a larger town called Cahokia Heights.
This makes it harder to google and spreads the blame around
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| Hire more report writers |
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| https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article254415408.html |
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| Yeahbutt...where's the pump??? |
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| Air pollution is a way different blog. But the top of my Air conditioner agrees with you. |
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| f'n THERE ya go. I guess it depends on what you ask, who you know. |
Bombastic generic lumping prejudicial-stereotype statements in my head have been redacted (I'd need to look up someone else's quote first)
https://environmentamericacenter.org/sites/environment/files/reports/US_wastingwaterways_scrn%20061814_0.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/us/politics/infrastructure-environmental-racism-alabama-black-belt.html (Blame Biden)
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