https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Neil-Young-17-Campaigner-3479343.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNairobi Visiting with ACORN organizers and members in Korogocho, we kept hearing stories about water cartels, as they were termed, fleecing the poor with higher water charges. The story was confusing. Were these private operators that were allowed to use a vital public service in order to exploit slumdwellers …
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National Crisis with Local Pain: Rebuilding Water and Sewer Infrastructure
Los Osos and Morro Bay There may not be too many issues more complex, expensive, or unpleasant to discuss than the emerging national crisis involving the mixing of our drinking water and our sewage wastewater, the Environmental Protection Agency’s mandate to protect against pollution, and the enormous expense that such infrastructure rebuilding would attempt to …