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Drinking water. on one hand, it s just bad planning, because infrastructure is the kind of thing we should be planning for for 100 years. on the other hand, every one of those examples you gave me and every example you and i have talked about about failed infrastructure in america has something in common. low wealthy people and people of color. it s exacerbated in the poor communities, because particularly with water, a try to keep prices low. they pay about $20 for water in jackson. the epa estimated seven years ago, when we were dealing with the failure of water in st. joe, which we had to replace the entire system for 500 people, it cost $10 million. had to get clean pipes, new system put in. when you look at the impact of what people pay, it cost about $32 to get clean water to your front door. so, people get confused, because in many places in the ....
Storm, like this flooding, that disrupted the water plant, those pipes lose presser and the sewer water, street water, to gets into the pipe and balloons the water system. 145,000 public water systems in america, over 35 to 40% of them are at risk. in louisiana, up to 1250 water systems we have, over 450 are at risk. this is a national security issue for our nation. our water systems need to be rebuilt, and people are confused because the taxes you pay do not pay for water. you pay for water with your water bill. that s how it s funded. one of the issues is that none of this is sexy stuff to talk about, right? electricity infrastructure, road infrastructure, and water infrastructure. we talk about roads when a bridge collapses. we talk about power when a grid fails. we talk about water when a city floods and doesn t have ....
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Orleans had 6000 people on water, shreveport, the entire city. jacksonville had a good part of its city under water. it s time to fix the water infrastructure, and that came about the clean drinking water act in the 1970s that mandated this. now, all those pipes have deteriorated. unfortunately, jackson is bringing it to everybody s attention, and citizens need to go to the public meetings at the county and parish level in city and say, what are we doing to replace our water lines? that last sentence applies to everything in politics today. citizens need to go to their local meetings. could be city council meetings, could be water board meetings, could be school board meetings, could be anything. get involved in how your place is governed. general, could see you again. thank you for being with. us thank you for what we re doing. maybe we could talk to us from jackson when you re up there. lieutenant general russell honoré, former joint task commission to katrina. coming up, democr ....
South, they combine your water bill, your and your wastewater, your sewage bill in one. so you pay 70 to $80 and you think, i m paying a lot of money for water! they re not. if you re not paying at least $32, that water system is not sustainable. but no one will win an election by saying, you pay 20 bucks for water, it should be 32. you pay this much for electricity, it should be. this you pay this much for wastewater, it should be this. it s just not we are in a weird political system as it is, but even 15 years ago in 25 years ago, when all of politics wasn t broken, nobody ever ran an election on i m going to fix your infrastructure. how do we fix that? they call guys like you every time something goes wrong and says, fix it! but you can t fix the pipes! you can fix people who are stranded in their house. you can t fix pipes, you can t fix a power line. you can t fix trains. you can t fix dams. unfortunately, only when the cameras leave, it becomes another issue that local g ....