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Re:Fw: 1999-12-29 VP Announces Increased Access to Local Drinking Water




> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: The White House <Publications-Admin at pub_pub.whitehouse.gov>
> To: <Public-Distribution at pub_pub.whitehouse.gov>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 10:40 AM
> Subject: 1999-12-29 VP Announces Increased Access to Local Drinking Water
> 
> >                               THE WHITE HOUSE
> >
> >                        Office of the Vice President
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> > For Immediate Release                                  December 29, 1999
> (202) 456-7035
> >
> >               VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES INCREASED ACCESS
> >                     TO LOCAL DRINKING WATER INFORMATION
> >
> >      Washington, D.C. - Vice President Al Gore today announced that for the
> > first time, the public will have access to "real-time" information about
> > the quality of their local drinking water.

Hogwash!  

snip...

> >
> >      The Des Moines Water Works/EMPACT site is a model system for real-time
> > public access to local drinking water and public health information.  This
> > new system, as developed through EPA's EMPACT program, can now serve as a
> > model and be used by other drinking water systems around the country to
> > improve the public's access to timely and accurate information about the
> > quality of their drinking water.

I'll take bets that the information is as outdated as the stuff your water
service posts now, annually. You get authoritative analysis of your local
water that can commonly and legally be as much as *three years* out of date!
They give it to you as if it is hot off the press, but that's *not* the way
the system works.

Anyone want to bet the "timely and accurate information" will include on
each reported line item a "most recent test date?" Not a prayer!

Wright

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