Infrastructure – Water!
Civics 101
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Water Rights in the West Versus the East
By the nineteenth century, a mid nineteenth century, all the major cities in the us. Had public water systems. But even into the early, early 19 hundreds, it's not uncommon for people to die of of typhoidcol other water born diseases. And so the big shift is with chlorination of water in the early 19 hundreds. They basically pass this rule that all interstate common carriers, buses, trains, ferries, have to have chlorinated water. That was certinly the back handed way that we got water chlorinated in the us and what about water rights in the west versus the east? Think of the thing thats keen in talking about water in the east coast, water
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