And what about our water?

posted Monday, 6 October 2008

A new report by George Bush's own EPA shows that the more rising climate change hits this country, the more it will affect water patterns and planning:

More intense storms will threaten water infrastructure and increase polluted stormwater runoff as climate change impacts water resources across the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns in a proposed climate and water strategy issued Thursday.
Shorelines will move as a result of sea level rise, and changes in ocean chemistry will alter aquatic habitat and fisheries, the agency said.
Warming water temperatures are likely change contaminant concentrations in water and alter the uses of aquatic systems, the EPA strategy document projects.

Yet, where is the $50 or $100 billion that would be needed to combate these threats to our infrastructure? The problem is that the Bush administration is too reactive -- it is not that the bailout was not needed; it was that the Bush administration not only encouraged the rapid binging that led to this credit collapse, it did not act proactively enough to stop it while there was still time to do so. And now, the Associated Press reports that what Congress approved this week will not be enough to stem the tide.

And we see this same kind of selective alarmism from the Bush administration with regards to our water. If the banking crisis is really so urgent as to warrant $700 billion, then why not $50 or $100 billion for our water systems now so that we can stop a problem that is still on the horizon from turning into a problem that would be even more devastating to our well-being than the current financial crisis?

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