GOP proposes rollback of mandatory disinfection for drinking water (Wisconsin)

Source: Cap Times

Unions aren't the only thing on the political front these days.

Republicans have introduced bills in each legislative house that would repeal a Department of Natural Resources rule that requires municipal governments to disinfect drinking water. The rule went into effect on Dec. 1 of last year, and it affects 12 percent of the state's municipal water supply systems. The other 88 percent of municipalities already disinfect their water.

"When I heard about this law being proposed, I thought, ‘You might as well legislate that the sun rises in the west," says Mark Borchardt, a leading infectious groundwater disease specialist and a staff member with the Environmental Protection Agency Advisory Board. He has done groundbreaking studies that showed that about 13 percent of acute gastro-intestinal illnesses in Wisconsin municipalities that don't disinfect their water supplies are tied to dirty drinking water.

The bill is sponsored by Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, in the Senate, and Rep. Erik Severson, R-Osceola, in the Assembly.



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can you get your very own case of cholera?

I think Republicans are actually insane. Why would anyone not want to disinfect municipal drinking water? Oh, because it costs money. Well, a whole city full of people with amoebic dysentery is gonna be expensive, too.

Now we can say, "If you go to Wisconsin don't drink the water."

Because Dems are for it. That seems to be enough reason for them these days. If the Dems said "let's double military spending", the repukes would probably say we need to cut military spending just out of a knee-jerk reaction. I agree with you, they do appear to be insane at this point, or at least their hatred of the Dems has become pathological.

And more and more wacko things like this (besides the Union busting but also the MO Child Labor Laws), you can summarize it as if Democrats are for a a moderate society based on open debate, these fringe Republicans are against anything like our civilized republic. These WI Republican senators are on the fringe in their own party. Bring this up with most Republican rank and file and unless they are drunk on tea, they would be appalled by this.

That is when Bugs slyly repeats "Wabbit season!" to Daffy Duck and Daffy automatically says "Duck season!," whereupon Fudd shoots Daffy...

away from something else they are trying to pull? It seems to me that every time a Repug comes up with a stupid idea, some other Repug is over in a distant corner, trying to pull a biggee. I don't think the union-busting is it. They are up to something else.

With Koch opening an office, it must be the sale of the power companies to them on a no-bid contract.

Where is the pea under the walnut shell? It's a trick.

They are devious mofos & not to be trusted in the People's house. Too bad so many American's can't see through the act.

on edit: spelling

Will set up private water supply companies that will sell 'clean' water to the public, since the city suddenly can't afford to treat its drinking water anymore.

I'll bet these conservanazi republiklans and the bottled water industry are hand-in-hand on this one. Ya think!

If you think that the true-blue 'born-again' pro-live conservanazis would put profit over people, then you are very wrong.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/100076744.html

now what`s he going to do with these two guys?

by the way Milwaukee has dumped....opps,that`s not millions..it`s BILLIONS of gallons of raw sewage over the years

http://mises.org/daily/1538

Forget oil, I have long thought water is far more likely to be the resource over which humankind will ultimately have to battle. This is another attempt to assert power and control. Corporations will control access to potable water. We've already been conditioned to believe that bottled water is superior to tap water. Once it's a reality.....

Oh fine, just pass me my tin foil hat.

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

Scary times.

were done by a company through a no-bid contract, that happens to support rethugs, clean water would be a "no-brainer." We have to remove money from politics.

nm

The proponents of this bill should have to drink water straight from Lake Michigan.
These two rethugs are just butt-ass stupid.

;-)

but I wanted to emphasize the butt....I mean point.... :rofl:

just east of the Twin Cities, a long ways from Lake Michigan.

(Cue the song)

When will they ever learn....when will they ever learn.

To me, this kind of ridiculous ruling should only lend more support to the protesters.

I see the protests growing because of this.

Now it will go from stopping the repukes union busting bullshit, to stopping repukes.

Well played repukes. halfwits. LOL

he says. "When people in an area are not complaining about the drinking water, the water is good. The taxpayers there are saying ‘Hey, we can't afford to pay for this.'"

Ignorance is Freedom.

Right? :shrug: This can't be real, right?

Not the public good.

If you have the money, you can install a home water disinfection system.

Get off your lazy butts and get a high paying job or inherit some money, you lazy, filthy hippie commies.

My first reaction to this is the same as if I had been told "GOP proposes mandatory anal probes". A municipality knowingly providing a potentially toxic stew of E. coli, typhoid, or Cryptosporidium will have one hell of a liability issue.

Municipal water contamination isn't just something that happens in far-off places on other continents.

they make me sick!!! :puke: