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 in the New Yorker about the politics of "no ones job" and how it is seen in the response to the chemical leak in West Virginia's Elk River.

Last Thursday an estimated seventy-five hundred gallons of MCMH, "a chemical used to remove impurities from coal, ran into the Elk from a one-inch hole in a tank belonging to a company called Freedom Industries." The chemical spill left the state's water supply nearly unusable for hundreds of thousands of residents.

 that by "2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water stressed conditions.”

Today's Question: Is Minnesota prepared for a world where water scarcity is widespread?

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Jedediah Purdy writes in the New Yorker about the politics of “no ones job” and how it is seen in the response to the chemical leak in West Virginia’s Elk River. Last Thursday an estimated seventy-five hundred gallons of MCMH, “a chemical used to remove impurities from coal, ran into the Elk from a one-inch…

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