Cheryl Seal
US Mayors: Urban Water Supplies at Risk
Sat Oct 1, 2005 16:04
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US Mayors Say Future of Urban Water Supplies in Danger
I'm not sure which is more disturbing to me - that the water supply of an alarming proportion of US cities is becoming inadequate and is vulnerable to disruption through natural disasters and other threats, or that the US media has ignored the story. I found this info in US Newswire service. I.e., the US Conferences of Mayors had to PAY to get the story out.
US Newswire: "The U.S. Conference of Mayors....released the findings of a National Urban Water Resources Survey today during a press conference in Albuquerque. The survey of 414 cities, which was conducted prior to the recent hurricanes, sounds the alarm on "everyday" infrastructure problems as well as catastrophic events.The survey shows that nearly 40 percent of the cities surveyed will not have adequate water supply in 20 years.
Additionally, dealing with Congressional unfunded mandates remains a serious problem for mayors. Currently major funding is directed toward water legislation and regulation instead of infrastructure improvement where it is sorely needed. This has left many cities unprepared for man-made and natural disasters, as witnessed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."
I was surprised to see that this press release omits a glaring problem: US cities are being starved of funds by the Bush administration. While funding for most public services, from flood control and local police, have shrunk in cities under Bush, the amount of money diverted from nearly everything else to finance "Homeland Security" has ballooned. Of course, the results of Katrina demonstrates just how effective that investment was....NOT!
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=54383
I'm not sure which is more disturbing to me - that the water supply of an alarming proportion of US cities is becoming inadequate and is vulnerable to disruption through natural disasters and other threats, or that the US media has ignored the story. I found this info in US Newswire service. I.e., the US Conferences of Mayors had to PAY to get the story out.
US Newswire: "The U.S. Conference of Mayors....released the findings of a National Urban Water Resources Survey today during a press conference in Albuquerque. The survey of 414 cities, which was conducted prior to the recent hurricanes, sounds the alarm on "everyday" infrastructure problems as well as catastrophic events.The survey shows that nearly 40 percent of the cities surveyed will not have adequate water supply in 20 years.
Additionally, dealing with Congressional unfunded mandates remains a serious problem for mayors. Currently major funding is directed toward water legislation and regulation instead of infrastructure improvement where it is sorely needed. This has left many cities unprepared for man-made and natural disasters, as witnessed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."
I was surprised to see that this press release omits a glaring problem: US cities are being starved of funds by the Bush administration. While funding for most public services, from flood control and local police, have shrunk in cities under Bush, the amount of money diverted from nearly everything else to finance "Homeland Security" has ballooned. Of course, the results of Katrina demonstrates just how effective that investment was....NOT!
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=54383
- How does it feel: Dylan was right. We're now on our own —Jane Stillwater, Sat Oct 1 16:41
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