The Value of Water
(IL) The Huffington Post - We have been awash with an array of unhappy water stories in this region of late. On the surface they are unrelated…scary fish…E. coli contamination…improperly regulated pesticides…intentionally poisoned waterways… But if you scratch below the surface there’s a problematic narrative developing: the water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature, function and value of their most precious resource.
For starters, there was Charles Duhigg’s devastating series in the New York Times about the state of water policy in the United States. His stories included the on-going poisoning of our waters with manure from agricultural operations, and the water pollution coming from coal plants. The articles are full of shocking failures of state environmental officials to enforce the requirements of the Clean Water Act within their jurisdictions against the polluters who are destroying our waters. More
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POSTED: Friday, November 20th, 2009
