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Erin Brockovich has claimed she has made a map of 10,000 communities across the US whose populations are suffering due to a polluted and contaminated water supply like in Flint, Michigan.
The real-life lawyer, who was played by actress Julia Roberts in a film about Ms Brockovich's fight for the residents of Hinkley, California to receive clean drinking water, has written a blog post for Medium which details how the disaster of polluted water is lying in wait to be exposed across the US.
She said she has been able to write a list of affected towns and areas because she receives hundreds of emails from worried citizens every day.
Her comments come the same week that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder testified in court about how much he knew and when he found out about the water crisis in Flint that affects 100,000 residents in his charge.
Ms Brockovich said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), charged with overseeing the Safe Drinking Water Act, is over burdened, understaffed, and broke."
We learned just this week that, in a memo, an EPA official stated that Flint was not worth going out on a limb for. The fact that someone from the governmental agency that is there to protect the health and the welfare of the people made such a disgusting comment will tell you where the problem is, she said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/erin-brockovich-has-a-map-of-10000-us-communities-with-poisoned-water-a6939576.html
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)burrowowl
(17,632 posts)Lorien
(31,935 posts)Hillary spent most of her years as SoS pushing fracking on Countries that didn't want it. Why would she do such a thing when we have all the tech we need to get off fossil fuels forever, and fracking is so dangerous to aquifers? Exactly because of both of those facts; fossil fuel barons know their days of controlling the world by controlling energy are numbered, and Wall Street heavyweights are now shifting their investments from oil to, yes, fresh water! Western States are running out of it, but much of the rest of the world has plenty. So why invest in such an abundant resource? Because it becomes far LESS abundant when you poison it! Fracking is the fastest way to poison vast reserves of ground water under the guise of "energy security". After all, Flint wasn't about saving money, it was about making it for those connected with Nestle.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)We can live without oil
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But you can't live without water
Lorien
(31,935 posts)from people who you pay incredibly low wages. Note that fracking happens in areas with large fresh water aquifers, not those areas that already have water shortages. And once an aquifer is poisoned, there's no way to make the water safe to use. They're screwing over every living thing on the planet for thousands of years just for next quarters profits, and the sense that they can control the world by controlling access to the world's resources.
Brother_Love
(82 posts)Lorien
(31,935 posts)under which sits vast reserves of "blue gold". Anyone see "Quantum of Solace"? Some people have been on to the game for a long time. http://agorafinancial.com/2015/04/24/why-did-george-bush-buy-nearly-300000-acres-in-paraguay/
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)---and ultimately it all that Industrial Ag chemical GMO pharmaceutical toxic crap trickles down to create the vast DEAD ZONES in the Gulf of Mexico and off the Pacific Coast.
Lorien
(31,935 posts)since 65% of our oxygen comes from ocean flora. Some scientists give us as little as 14 years.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Lorien
(31,935 posts)he who controls the world's resources controls the world.