Best quotes by Andrew R. Wheeler on Water

Checkout quotes by Andrew R. Wheeler on Water

• ‟ When we go, as a first responder, when we go into a community that's been hit with a hurricane, or some other natural disaster, the first thing we do is try to make sure the electric grid is back up and running in order to provide the drinking water for those communities.

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• ‟ When you have a thousand children that die a day from lack of drinking water, that's a crisis and that's a crisis that we - we collectively as the world - know how to solve that problem. We know what it takes but we haven't had the will internationally to solve that problem.

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• ‟ A reliable electric grid is absolutely necessary to provide drinking water. You have to have the electricity.

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• ‟ America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.

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• ‟ Under the Clean Water Act, the federal government has jurisdiction over navigable waters - defined as the 'waters of the United States.' Federal regulators and the courts have broadened this definition over time, moving from waters a vessel can navigate to ponds and wetlands as well.

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• ‟ The U.S. is the gold standard for clean air and clean water. We reached that point through private sector innovation and cooperation between Washington and the states to implement our nation's environmental laws.

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• ‟ The Clean Water Act wasn't designed to allow states to drag out decisions for years or use their Section 401 authority to veto projects of national significance when the projects wouldn't impact water quality.

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• ‟ We are working on a lot of innovative ways to provide safer drinking water to the American public. Innovative financing ways.

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• ‟ Up to 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and, as a result, proper sanitation. This fact leads to anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths every year.

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• ‟ We are elevating this work to address global water security to a new level under President Trump.

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• ‟ In fact, on the drinking water side, the Green New Deal does not value - at least nowhere in the documents does it value - having reliable electric grid.

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• ‟ We have the safest drinking water in the world.

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• ‟ The PFOA, PFOS is is a real concern and people need to be concerned about it and the water systems need to be concerned about it. But when you only focus on that, it could take resources away from other issues or problems that the water systems have diverted to just this. And this may not be a huge problem in every community.

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• ‟ Yes, climate is an issue and we are working to address it, but I think water is a bigger issue.

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