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Latest Fact-Checks In Water

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Lindsay Cross
Lindsay Cross
stated on January 3, 2023 in a press release:
"Florida's water is dirtier and sicker than when Gov. DeSantis first took office."
Half-True
By Yacob Reyes • January 13, 2023
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on April 13, 2021 in a TV interview:
“We have 23% of all the lead pipe leads in America in the Chicagoland area.”
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • April 18, 2021
Lena Taylor
Lena Taylor
stated on November 20, 2019 in 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 in 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. 
Half-True
By Mica Soellner • June 11, 2019
Alexander Strenger
Alexander Strenger
stated on October 1, 2018 in 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."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2018
Steve Troxler
Steve Troxler
stated on July 10, 2018 in a speech:
The Black River’s water quality is "rated at the very top in North Carolina."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • August 1, 2018
Michelle Wolf
Michelle Wolf
stated on April 29, 2018 in a speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner:
"Flint still doesn’t have clean water."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 1, 2018
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 12, 2017 in 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."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • July 18, 2017
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on November 11, 2016 in remarks on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
In Flint, Mich., "the pipes still haven't been replaced. The water is still poisoned."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2016 in a speech:
Says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine "want to shut down shale, and shut down natural gas."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 1, 2016 in 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 in 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.  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 12, 2016
Sharlene Leurig
Sharlene Leurig
stated on February 9, 2015 in 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."
Half-True
By Andra Lim • May 18, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 in 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."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 4, 2015
Matt Damon
Matt Damon
stated on March 23, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"Every 20 seconds, a child dies because they lack access to clean water and sanitation."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • March 23, 2014
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on June 25, 2013 in 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."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2013
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
stated on February 6, 2013 in an editorial.:
Says Texas ranks first among the states in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted and toxic chemicals released into water.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 13, 2013
Lee Leffingwell
Lee Leffingwell
stated on December 13, 2012 in 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.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 21, 2013
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 29, 2012 in a news conference:
Says "Detroit dumping a bunch of sewage" in Lake Erie "causes big problems" for Ohio.
Half-True
By Aaron Marshall • January 7, 2013
H204TEXAS PAC
H204TEXAS PAC
stated on October 24, 2011 in an email blast.:
Proposition 2 on November’s Texas ballot "does not cost state taxpayers any money."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 3, 2011
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