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Latest Fact-Checks In Water

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JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on January 12, 2025 a Fox News interview
“Some of these (California) reservoirs have been dry for 15, 20 years."
Mostly False
By Caleb McCullough • January 17, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 27, 2022 a post
"$12 billion more for Ukraine on top of $100+ billion while Jackson, Mississippi has yet to receive any funding to fix their water infrastructure."
Mostly False
By Gabrielle Settles • October 6, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 27, 2022 an Instagram video
There’s an unlimited supply of water being generated “deep within the Earth.”
Mostly False
By Andy Nguyen • September 7, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 climate change plan
"60 million Americans live in a place where the water they drink is unsafe."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 7, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 21, 2018
"I want clean air. I want crystal clean water. And we’ve got it. We’ve got the cleanest country in the planet right now."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • August 23, 2018
Gwen Graham
Gwen Graham
stated on July 18, 2018 a tweet
"When a sinkhole began dumping toxic water in Florida's aquifer, Rick Scott tried to cover it up."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 1, 2018
Matt Flynn
Matt Flynn
stated on June 13, 2018 news release
"Foxconn will not face oversight from any federal, state, or local agency to guarantee it complies with our wetlands protection laws."  
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • July 11, 2018
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on February 13, 2017 a press release
"The Oroville dam failure was entirely avoidable: California passed a $7.5 Billion water bond in 2014 but Jerry Brown didn't spend $1 on new water storage or improvements to existing infrastructure like Oroville."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • February 16, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 30, 2016 a CNN town hall in Milwaukee
"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 16, 2015 prepared remarks in a written speech
To abide by Environmental Protection Agency rules when mining or drilling you have "to take caution not to disturb bodies of water barely bigger than a puddle."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 22, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune
"We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 8, 2015
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on November 19, 2014 a TWC News debate
"The city of San Antonio reuses almost 40 percent of its water. You know how much the city of Austin reuses? About 5 percent. And that's not right. We can do better."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour • December 11, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 21, 2014 a CNN debate
"We have spent $350 million to deal with sea-level rise" in the Miami area and "hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with coral reefs."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2014
City of Austin
City of Austin
stated on November 6, 2013 a press release
"Onion Creek’s highest flow rate" on a recent night of flooding "was 120,000 cubic feet per second, which is nearly double the average flow rate of Niagara Falls."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 14, 2013
Portlanders for Water Reform
Portlanders for Water Reform
stated on July 18, 2013 a fundraising letter.
Says the reasoning behind Portland's high water and sewer rates is "all kinds of ’pet projects’ unrelated to the core function of the water and sewer bureaus"
Mostly False
By Ian K. Kullgren • July 26, 2013
Ron Oakley
Ron Oakley
stated on April 16, 2012 a campaign mailer
Ron Oakley's "conservative leadership protected local taxpayers over government bureaucrats" as the Water Management District’s budget decreased by "58 percent in the four years he served on the board."
Mostly False
By Lee Logan • April 22, 2012
Penny Bernard Schaber
Penny Bernard Schaber
stated on January 27, 2012 a legislative hearing
A proposed mine in Wisconsin is "about two-thirds the size of Lake Winnebago."
Mostly False
January 30, 2012
Matt Wingard
Matt Wingard
stated on May 4, 2011 a House floor session
Increasing the bottle deposit to 10 cents on a case of water bottles could literally double the price of that product in the store.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • May 13, 2011