From the Business Insider Australia as a prelude to the 1st presidential debate, sounds like win-win so far as EMC goes!
Over the past several years, the western states have suffered from one of the worst droughts in US history. California is in its fifth straight year of severe drought, which has put considerable stress on crops and water use. The American Society of Civil Engineers has given infrastructure across the country “D” grades for dams, drinking water, and wastewater.
Clinton wants to establish a Western Water Partnership to coordinate water use among agencies and states in the Western US, and a Water Innovation Lab to use and reuse the resource more efficiently.
In addition, Clinton has called for increased investments in water infrastructure to, “repairing, replacing and expanding” existing infrastructures that are often more than 100 years old.
“Chronic underinvestment in our nation’s drinking and wastewater systems has sickened and endangered Americans from Flint, Michigan, to Ohio and West Virginia,” Clinton said on ScienceDebate. “Outdated and inadequate wastewater systems discharge more than 900 billion gallons of untreated sewage a year, posing health risks to humans and wildlife life, disrupting ecosystems, and disproportionately impacting communities of colour.”
Trump says clean water may be the “most important issue we face as a nation for the next generation,” and it will be a “top priority” for his administration.
“We must make the investment in our fresh water infrastructure to ensure access to affordable fresh water solutions for everyone,” he said on ScienceDebate. “We must explore all options to include making desalinization more affordable and working to build the distribution infrastructure to bring this scarce resource to where it is needed for our citizens and those who produce the food of the world.”
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