No water in Toledo. Toxins in the city water make it unpotable and bottled water has sold off the shelves. 500,000 customers of the city water plant are raiding Wal-Marts in southern Michigan for H2O. It’s the Toledo War all over again.
No water in Toledo
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Oh look, another crisis for the democrat leaders of the city to make worse.
And, they won't sleep until they do!
How long has Toledo been governed by Democrats?
At the very least, since Toledo has known about its algae problem.
Since the Klinger and Tony Packo's era.
maybe John Boehner can cry them a river
It costs more to desalinate water than to get rid of the algae.
Jihad is coming to all infidels ...this is just a start, wait until the Muzzie in Chief orders his muslim brotherhood pals to release the Ebola virus that just entered the United States for the first time in history. This would not be allowed without POTUS approval.
So how long until it is blamed on:
-Global warming-or at least used to show what will happen if we don't repent from our eco-sins.
-Racist Republicans
-The Koch Brothers
-Gov. Kaasich (see number 2)
The TEA Party not going with the Federal Infrastructure wish list
Not long. http://tinyurl.com/ljdryfa
Oh oh, this sentence about the toxin is going to have high schoolers sucking on the water taps:
"In some people, it can create a sensation similar to being drunk."
Running out of water in the middle of the Great Lakes signifies a mindboggling level of incompetence by Toledo bureaucrats. Toledo sits off a shallow algae-blighted bay of Lake Eire, but a hundred miles up the road Cleveland is pulling crystal clear Great Lakes water from a deeper part of the lake - and running a water line one hundred miles is just about the easiest thing imaginable. Like California and its water problems, Toledo has known about its algae problem for years and done nothing. Now an emergency has been declared and the federal government will step in and spend OUR money to fix the situation.
Wouldn't it be even easier to run the lines they use to draw the water from the lake, out a few more miles into the good water?
I'm assuming Cleveland has already done that, putting their intake further out and deeper. So piggybacking on Cleveland's intake point would be the cheapest option. Running water lines across land is easy as pie. Not only does eminent domain clear the way, all the government is asking for is an easement so the price they have to pay to landowners is almost nothing. (If you're a landowner, your use of the land will probably never be affected by having a water line passing underneath. Unless you wanted to do open pit mining.) Decades ago, there was a dispute between Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Wyoming, a neighboring city. They hated each other and Wyoming hated being dependent on the Grand Rapids intake at Lake Michigan, so one day they took a vote and decided to run their own water line from Lake Michigan. It was only about thirty miles in this case, but it was amazing how fast it all happened once they decided to do it. If I remember right, the biggest problem was acquiring the land at Lake Michigan for the pumping station because lakeshore real estate is expensive and hard to get. Once they had that, zip bam boom they had a water line.
That's why I thought Toledo would be better off just running their intake further into the lake, because they already have the pumping station, so they won't even need to acquire land.
There is no "good" water on that end of the lake at the moment. Scary ain'tit?
[edit] saw a pic yesterday & can't find it, this is 2011 and it's a lot worse this year.
http://www.onearth.org/blog/satellite-photos-reveal-lake-erie-toxic-algae
Just an aside JP, but Cleveland & Lake Erie (not the Irish one) reminded me of something; have you ever seen pics of the salt mine under the lake? Yes, under Lake Erie, way under. Kinda boggles my mind.