Water: A Billion Gallons A Month Down the Drain

Delivering safe, healthy water has been one of the main functions of government for as long as there have been governments, building aqueducts in Roman times and more recently across the Harlem River. Water is also political, as we have seen from Atlanta to Wisconsin this year. But that hasn't stopped our current governments from letting the infrastructure fall to ruin. Full Story »

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Bobbie Balazo
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by Bobbie Balazo - Oct. 1, 2008

Though I can understand the author's angle of the story, there wasn't enough to fully back up why this is happening. The author made it seem that pipelines throughout the U.S. is the problem at stake based on the New York Times excerpt, but didn't go into depth on the statistics presented.

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