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then they re probably okay. but the other sites you got to be worried about what is going into the water system. and there are some water systems that have been compromised. you have sanitary sewer overflows. you have some really nasty stuff that is in that water. now is it making its way into the drinking water or not? that s what the state and the city has got to be on top of. in fact, all the cities they are are the primary responders. the federal government has a role to play and epa has a role to play. if you re back at your old post, what do you focus on first? first of all, if i were at my old post, i would have a regional administrator. they don t have one. they don t have the staffing that they need in the agency to be able to respond in the way they normally wochlt they have career staff. you have emergency response personnel. they know their jobs. they will have been out there. it is hampering their work. you need somebody to be there encouraging them, telling them where
you know, just living in norris, we had, over the course of the past six months, we had multiple boil water alerts, we ve had to shower with your head down, because if you shower with it up, these microbes will get into your nose. there s this way in which, that notion we should be able to trust and rely on our water supply is completely torn apart by events like whatwear seeing in west virginia and north carolina. it s true. and i m glad you brought up new orleans. because we have a couple of issues going on here. we have equity issues and we have infrastructure issues. so when it comings to equities with west virginia is the third poorest state in the country. and many of these infrastructure issues that are happening, are happening to our most vulnerable populations in the united states. so when it comes to infrastructure, we know that the epa says between 23,000 and 75,000 sanitary sewer overflows happen each year. and they re happening to our most vulnerable communities. 2.5 man
of precipitation throughout the nation and the world. david, i was consistently surprised in the text, as you sort of walked through the history of water, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, now we re in water 4.0, how the failure of water infrastructures can mean the failure of entire civilianizations, entire groups of peoples. which doesn t really seem like we re about to end america, does it? i mean, how bad are is our infrastructure right now, relative to kind of the history of water infrastructure? well, not to belittle the concerns about chemical spills, but i think in terms of the drought and water supply, we re in reasonable shape to survive a drought of a few years length. i think the issue is that we need to plan ahead for things like the effects of climate change. not only having less water in the west and the southwest, but more water in the east and the northeast. so we heard about combined sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows.
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