To make matters that much worse, the over 2 million gallons of toxic water the oil and gas industry disposes of daily is pumped into the aquifer and poisons the diminishing underground supply at an alarming rate; so much so that well over a hundred (at last count) drinking-water wells have been shut down by state water regulators and the EPA due to oil waste-water contamination.
For several California cities, that corporate greed is finally paying dividends, and not the good kind, leaving them without water.
A coalition working with organizations and activists the world over to promote water as a basic human right filed a report with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights on behalf of tens-of-thousands of poor Detroit residents who are being denied access to running water.
As doubts remain about the safety of West Virginia drinking water, Republicans were so certain there are sufficient regulations to keep the water supply safe, they passed three bills to eliminate the EPA’s authority over states.
Marco Rubio is clearly picking up the mantle of the “NEW” Republican’t Party by putting a new, watery-smooth face on their same dehydrated ideas.