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Drinking water systems imperiled by failing infrastructure
http://news.yahoo.com/drinking-water-systems-imperiled-failing-infrastructure-140117243.html
I don't think bottled water is the answer.
How should state and local governments deal with imperiled infrastructure? Increase taxes? Or sell off the infrastructure to corporations?
http://news.yahoo.com/drinking-water-systems-imperiled-failing-infrastructure-140117243.html
So, it appears that the Clean Water Act is not encouraging folks to maintain clean, or cleaner rivers.DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Deep inside a 70-year-old water-treatment plant, drinking water for Iowa's capital city is cleansed of harmful nitrates that come from the state's famously rich farmland.
Without Des Moines Water Works, the central Iowa region of 500,000 people that it serves wouldn't have a thriving economy. But after decades of ceaseless service, the utility is confronting an array of problems: Water mains are cracking open hundreds of times every year. Rivers that provide its source water are increasingly polluted. And the city doesn't know how it will afford a $150 million treatment plant at a time when revenues are down and maintenance costs are up.
I don't think bottled water is the answer.
How should state and local governments deal with imperiled infrastructure? Increase taxes? Or sell off the infrastructure to corporations?
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