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EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans
The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to dismantle the federal clean water rule, which protects waterways that provide drinking water for about a third of the US population. The EPA, with the US army, has proposed scrapping the rule in order to conduct a “substantive re-evaluation” of which rivers, streams, wetlands and other bodies of water should be protected by the federal government.
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Why do you need to remove the rule to re-evaluate which water bodies should be protected? It's like, "we're going to remove the penalties for rape while we re-evaluate who needs to be protected from it".
That title is clickbait. The Waters of the US rule has been a hot point for years. Talk about a failed agency....there are numerous instances of poisoned dinking water, Flint as just one,...under the auspices of the EPA. Whatever they were protecting sure wasn't the drinking water.
Edit: added more words.
It may actually be a good thing to have grown up in a place where the tap water is undrinkable (and that's on the rare occasions when you actually have water coming out of the tap). I never assume that tap water is OK to drink, no matter where I am. It does get me funny looks from people sometimes, but I'd rather get funny looks than lead poisoning, or cholera.