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Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.
Charles C. Mann
World
Water
Job
Forcing
Local
Corporate
Giants
Systems
City
Rather
Clean
Clean Up
Factories
Take
Outsource
Supply
Developing
Developing World
Over
Named
French
Around
Handful
Up
Than
Managing
Often
Polluted
After
Decided
Themselves
Planet
Company
Now
Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.
Charles C. Mann
Game
Water
Political
Strategy
Side
Presidents
Weaken
Economic
Winning
Remained
Economic Growth
Taking
Name
Reagan
Been
Years
Left
Office
Prediction
Bush
Mug
Regulations
Growth
Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes - Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties.
Charles C. Mann
People
Water
State
Collaborative
States
Tribes
Promised
Indian
Some
Rivers
Instance
Protect
Western
Salmon
Native
Which
Agreements
Washington
Washington State
Treaties
Number
A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
Charles Duhigg
Day
People
Water
Long
Few
Meal
All Day
Drink
Outside
Bottled
Bottled Water
Beverage
Unthinkingly
Springs
Sip
Office
Decades
Then
Workers
Production
Companies
Many
Now
Started
There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Air
Systems
Would
Prevent
Emission
Discharge
Making
Any
Pollution
Zero
Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.
Charles Duhigg
Government
Risks
Water
Drinking
Other
Hundreds
Small
Drinking Water
Identified
Chemicals
Limits
Still
Scientists
Linked
Diseases
Serious
Pose
State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Old
Too
State
Sewer
Systems
Thousands
Indicate
Properly
Federal
Studies
May
Function
Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.
Charles Duhigg
Legal
Water
Sometimes
Local
Say
Systems
Must
Tried
Some
Above
Beyond
Safe
Protect
Go
Encountered
Overseeing
Very
Trying
Legally
Officials
Required
Who
Residents
Resistance
Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.
Charles Duhigg
Health
Risks
Water
Will
Long
Drinking
Few
Meet
Extremely
Some
Someone
Only
Drinking Water
Federal
Argue
Long Periods
Consumed
Hazardous
Over
Toxic
Periods
Make
Does
Chemicals
Years
Doses
Low
Ill
Researchers
Many
Even
Necessarily
Pose
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Dangerous
Drinking
Elsewhere
Bacteria
Boston
Drinking Water
Lead
New
Safe
Passed
Discovered
Tests
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
After
Act
Orleans
Flowing
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Drinking
Risk
Drinking Water
Environment
Almost
Said
Years
Officials
Agency
Humans
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
Charles Duhigg
Water
Cause
Drinking
Difficult
Drinking Water
Instance
Contamination
Particular
Like
Source
Tests
Pinpoint
Link
Disease
Often
Polluted
Pollution
Hard
Show
Even
Specific
I had four sandwiches when I left New York. I only ate one and a half during the whole trip and drank a little water. I don't suppose I had time to eat any more because, you know, it surprised me how short a distance it is to Europe.
Charles Lindbergh
Time
Me
You
Water
Half
Distance
Drank
Ate
Eat
Trip
More
Only
Had
New
Suppose
Know
Because
How
Surprised
Left
York
Any
Short
New York
Little
Sandwiches
Europe
Whole
Four
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
Charles Lyell
Water
Sometimes
Down
Worn
Projecting
Slightly
Ancient
Above
More
Shallow
Bottom
Observed
Feet
Parts
Piles
Surface
Than
Wooden
Where
Lakes
Depth
Mud
Many
Swiss
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Good
Water
Pleasure
Out
Would
Throw
She
Fishing
Friend
Again
Acquaintances
Them
Her
Good Friend
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
Charles Olson
Time
Morning
Water
Drop
Faucet
Small
Count
Leak
Blessings
Makes
Sink
Snow
Which
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
Charles Platt
Environmental
Water
Slow
First
Few
Cold
Extreme
Month
Fusion
Penetrate
Temperature
Slow Motion
Weeks
Excess
Take
Exclude
Like
Readings
Motion
Effects
Accurate
Heat
Then
Next
Require
Boil
Sufficient
Watching
Two
The company Sunfare delivers food to my house, and I eat six meals day. My two cheats are hot chocolate that I'm obsessed with and drink multiple times a day, and root beer I drink once in a million years. I drink about 2 gallons of water a day.
Charlie Ebersol
Food
Day
Beer
Water
Once
Eat
About
Drink
Hot
Cheats
Obsessed
House
Years
Times
Six
Meals
Chocolate
Root
Company
Multiple
Million
Million Years
Two
In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.
Charlie Shrem
Food
You
World
Water
Internet
Prison
Spend
Everything
Worry
Dime
About
Given
Outside
Shelter
Off
Forget
Cut
Communications
Shower
Bills
Whole
Need
The lead initiative of my foundation is clean water, but not far behind it is military appreciation.
Chris Long
Appreciation
Water
Military
Clean
Clean Water
Lead
Behind
Far
Initiative
Foundation
I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
Chris Robinson
Music
Me
Water
Big
Down
Everything
Know
Rock
Rock And Roll
Fit
Commercial
Roll
Want
Formats
Turning
I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'
Chris Squire
Water
Few
Live
Out
Except
Never
Occasions
Fish
Anything
Special
Played
I couldn't imagine not having clean water.
Chris Tucker
Water
Having
Clean
Clean Water
Imagine
I prefer to make my own coffee at home because I love the experience of measuring out the beans and finding the right grind setting, messing with water amounts, etc. It's truly an art form, and I'm obsessed with it. In L.A., I love Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia and used to hang at Bru in Los Feliz.
Chris Wood
Love
Art
Home
Experience
Water
Coffee
Own
Setting
Out
Finding
My Own
Beans
Bottle
Obsessed
Make
Because
Messing
Los
Truly
Art Form
Intelligentsia
Blue
Hang
Form
Etc
Grind
Prefer
Used
Measuring
Right
Amount
I drink a ton of water. And I never go to bed too full.
Chrissy Teigen
Water
Too
Drink
Never
Bed
Go
Full
Ton
When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.
Christie Brinkley
Sports
Water
Skin
Crucial
Protecting
Doing
Stop
Your
Aging
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