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The water is safe. Its just been announced. The fear mongering and threats to socialize the private sector can stop now.
We can cut down on erosion from farms that leech in the phosphorus by increasing buffer strips. In my state the rivers that feed into the Maumee are chocolate brown after a heavy rain. You rarely see this when you cross the line into Michigan that takes the issue more seriously and the farm lobby is much weaker.
A couple of years ago I attended a public meeting to stop the dredging if a local river. The farmers in the area wanted the river straightened out to move water out as fast as possible. This would not fly in Michigan.
The issue is how we use the lake. The infrastructure is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
When too much water is taken into the storm system, we flush raw sewage into the lake, sometimes tens of millions of gallons.
Whatever.... you went off the reservation with this line of absurdity.
Okay, that bolded part is just drama, please. Drinking, dish, and toothbrush water is a mere fraction of the uses for city water supplies. PULLEEEASE can we ever get to the point where we can discuss rationally present things or are we all just loving the drama too much.
I'm pointing out your idiotic comment overlooks that the people of Toledo are currently living off of bottled water produced by the big evil private sector.
Sewer systems in general, infrastructure. I bet 4 billion would go along way. Oh, wait. We need to spend 4 billion on the illegals.
No drinking water?
Just another one of the many benefits the "free market" provides. I'm sure that private businesses will provide a solution.
And if Obama said "Hey let's spend 4 billion on infrastructure" the GOP would be OK with it???
Well it's the most fertile land in Ohio (being ex-swamp land) so it's a bit easier said then done. Especially when that area relies on farming related industry more and more.
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Water may soon be the next Oil. (figuratively speaking) While I am relatively close to Lake Michigan, I get my water from an aquifer and still have it tested four times a year.
They didn't "produce" the water. They put it in a bottle. Unless they've come up with a way to combine 2 hydrogens and 1 oxygen in a lab at such a price that it's profitable. ("You didn't make that" - which in this case is true)
Regardless, getting a drink of water should be a basic human right. Not a privilege you pay for.
Hahahah! You guys have yourselves so turned around. Do you honestly think that public water is free?
Yes. It would.
Drinking water is probably kind of important.
It is significantly less costly than bottled water. It is supplied at no cost to people in most public buildings (ever have to pay for a water fountain?)
Doesn't the right to live come in to play here, or do you lose that after birth? Is that really the conservative position here? No right to life after birth? No right to water? What's next, no right to breathe?
`Ask T. Boone Pickens. He was buying up all the water rights in Texas when he was peddling his plan a few years ago.
No drinking water?
Just another one of the many benefits the "free market" provides. I'm sure that private businesses will provide a solution.
The water is safe. Its just been announced. The fear mongering and threats to socialize the private sector can stop now.
Sewer systems in general, infrastructure. I bet 4 billion would go along way. Oh, wait. We need to spend 4 billion on the illegals.
I'm curious to see how many people will think "Hmmm, that could have been worse, maybe I should do something to make sure I'm not affected as much next time". Or more accurately, how many will just go back to Facebook and fantasy football and be caught completely off guard again next time.
That and will the city and state governments say, "we might want to look into an alternate water source, because we got lucky and next time we might not be so lucky".