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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. 
Half-True
By Mica Soellner • June 11, 2019
Sara Meaney
Sara Meaney
stated on May 9, 2019 a WTMJ radio appearance
"Wisconsin, many people may not be aware, actually has 15,000 freshwater lakes. … More than Minnesota."
False
By Eric Litke • May 23, 2019
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
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 12, 2019 a State of the State Address
"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."
True
By Chris Nichols • February 14, 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."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2018
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
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on August 5, 2018 a tweet
Says Rick Scott "cut $700 million from water management."
Mostly True
By Lucia Geng • August 14, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2018 a tweet
"California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean."
False
By Chris Nichols • August 6, 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
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."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • 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
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 5, 2018 in a blog post
"New law (in California) makes it illegal to shower and do laundry on same day"
False
By Bill McCarthy • June 7, 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."
Half-True
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."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • July 18, 2017
Matt Damon
Matt Damon
stated on April 20, 2017 a discussion with the president of the World Bank
Poor people pay "in some cases, up to 25 percent of (their) income for water."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2017
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
Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney
stated on December 28, 2016 a website op-ed
"Asia ... has less freshwater per capita than any other continent, except Antarctica."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 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."
Half-True
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."
Half-True
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
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