Huffington Post: Urban and Rural, Red and Blue: Time to Rebuild America's Water Infrastructure
From Huffington Post:
Two of my staffers were out for a run yesterday and came across a water main break in the middle of one of DC's busiest streets: the intersection of 23rd and I, right in front of GW Hospital and the Foggy Bottom metro. This brought traffic to a halt and hindered access to the Hospital. This reminded me of an incident just this May when a water main broke in Seattle. These are just two very public examples of water and sewer pipe failures that occur across America, with EPA estimating that about 240,000 breaks occur every year. As President Obama has said, this isn't about red states vs. blue states. Nor is it about rural vs. urban. Republicans and Democrats support fixing our water and sewer pipes, as do environmentalists, engineers, contractors, industry, and rural community advocates.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1963 Get The Facts
“More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy—the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up—was beyond calculation.”
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Alabama
David Seibert
County Commission Chairman, Limestone County
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