https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2019/08/01/safe-affordable-drinking-water-bill-passes-with-bipartisan-support/ In-depth, locally-produced coverage of the Central Valley. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:37:17 -0700 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2019/08/01/safe-affordable-drinking-water-bill-passes-with-bipartisan-support/#comment-20349 Saul Travers Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:10:26 +0000 https://bak.ourvalleyvoice.com/?p=28635#comment-20349 People sticking to their tired political scripts: 1) “The right way to fund water cleanup would be to require the polluters to pay,” said the Sierra Club. That's great, if you can identify them and there are current assets to attach. Meanwhile, it get tied up in courts for 10 years. Sometimes nitrates and bacteria occur naturally, sometimes it is caused by human activity. 2) “My Senate Republican colleagues and I support providing clean drinking water for our hardworking families without raising taxes. The State’s inability to provide clean drinking water to some of California’s most rural and disadvantaged communities is a moral failure. Uh, no. Perhaps the people who live near bad water should move to where the good water is. It is not the job of government to fix water that is naturally unhealthy. If the water was good in the past and they can identify humans who broke the laws to pullute it, then seek compensation. People sticking to their tired political scripts:
1) “The right way to fund water cleanup would be to require the polluters to pay,” said the Sierra Club.
That’s great, if you can identify them and there are current assets to attach. Meanwhile, it get tied up in courts for 10 years. Sometimes nitrates and bacteria occur naturally, sometimes it is caused by human activity.
2) “My Senate Republican colleagues and I support providing clean drinking water for our hardworking families without raising taxes. The State’s inability to provide clean drinking water to some of California’s most rural and disadvantaged communities is a moral failure.
Uh, no. Perhaps the people who live near bad water should move to where the good water is. It is not the job of government to fix water that is naturally unhealthy. If the water was good in the past and they can identify humans who broke the laws to pullute it, then seek compensation.

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