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Gerald Joseph McAdams Kauffman Jr.
Special to the USA TODAY Network
April is Earth Month and from the State House to the White House, it’s good to see robust action on water, climate and infrastructure.
Constitutionally, Delaware is the First State and so it is in water. Sitting on the Delmarva Peninsula at 60 feet above sea level, Delaware is the lowest state with a quarter of its land in floodplain and a 130-mile coast with the nation’s cleanest ocean beaches. Twenty years ago, Delaware passed laws creating the Water Supply Coordinating Council after the 1995-2002 drought emergency and Nutrient Management Commission for farms to protect the Chesapeake and Inland bays and in 2000 Bill Clinton signed the bipartisan White Clay Creek Wild and Scenic River Act sponsored by then-Sen. Joe Biden and Rep. Joe Pitts, a Pennsylvania Republican, to protect the interstate watershed that supplies drinking water to a fifth of the First State’s residents. These cooperative water progr
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