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Latest Fact-Checks In Water

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Lindsay Cross
Lindsay Cross
stated on January 3, 2023 a press release
"Florida's water is dirtier and sicker than when Gov. DeSantis first took office."
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By Yacob Reyes • January 13, 2023
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on April 13, 2021 a TV interview
“We have 23% of all the lead pipe leads in America in the Chicagoland area.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • April 18, 2021
Lena Taylor
Lena Taylor
stated on November 20, 2019 news release
Lead levels in Milwaukee's water "are higher than Flint, MI." 
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • January 10, 2020
Jimmy Anderson
Jimmy Anderson
stated on May 29, 2019 a tweet
Republicans on the budget-writing committee "did nothing" to address oversight of large-scale farms, "as literal manure is coming out of people’s faucets. 
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By Mica Soellner • June 11, 2019
Alexander Strenger
Alexander Strenger
stated on October 1, 2018 response cited in an interactive voter guide
Says 60 percent of Austin’s "waterways are found to be contaminated with fecal matter and deemed unsafe to swim."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2018
Steve Troxler
Steve Troxler
stated on July 10, 2018 a speech
The Black River’s water quality is "rated at the very top in North Carolina."
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By Paul Specht • August 1, 2018
Michelle Wolf
Michelle Wolf
stated on April 29, 2018 a speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner
"Flint still doesn’t have clean water."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 1, 2018
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech on the House floor
"While California’s population has doubled since the 1970s, we haven’t completed a single major (water) storage project in that time."
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By Chris Nichols • July 18, 2017
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on November 11, 2016 remarks on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
In Flint, Mich., "the pipes still haven't been replaced. The water is still poisoned."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2016 a speech
Says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine "want to shut down shale, and shut down natural gas."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 1, 2016 a news conference
"There are tens of thousands of homes right here in California where you turn on the faucet but you can't drink the water."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 14, 2016
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on April 27, 2016 a congressional hearing
Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.  
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By Jon Greenberg • May 12, 2016
Sharlene Leurig
Sharlene Leurig
stated on February 9, 2015 an Austin City Council workshop
"Austin is the only city in an arid landscape in the western United States dependent on a single source of water."
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By Andra Lim • May 18, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune
Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 4, 2015
Matt Damon
Matt Damon
stated on March 23, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Every 20 seconds, a child dies because they lack access to clean water and sanitation."
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By Steve Contorno • March 23, 2014
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on June 25, 2013 a Senate floor speech
Recent record-low water levels in Lake Michigan are evidence that global warming is leading to "the evaporation of our Great Lakes."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2013
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
stated on February 6, 2013 an editorial.
Says Texas ranks first among the states in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and toxic chemicals released into water.
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 13, 2013
Lee Leffingwell
Lee Leffingwell
stated on December 13, 2012 an Austin City Council meeting.
Says Austin’s treated wastewater, put into the Colorado River, is of higher quality than water the city takes from the lake for public use.
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 21, 2013
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 29, 2012 a news conference
Says "Detroit dumping a bunch of sewage" in Lake Erie "causes big problems" for Ohio.
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By Aaron Marshall • January 7, 2013
H204TEXAS PAC
H204TEXAS PAC
stated on October 24, 2011 an email blast.
Proposition 2 on November’s Texas ballot "does not cost state taxpayers any money."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 3, 2011
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