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Latest Fact-Checks In Water

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Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on April 3, 2016 a newspaper Q&A
California has "the same water infrastructure from when we were 16 million people."  
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • May 31, 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.  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 12, 2016
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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.
"(Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • March 7, 2016
Tim Echols
Tim Echols
stated on October 26, 2015 an opinion piece in a trade magazine
"Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower."
Mostly True
By April Hunt • November 10, 2015
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
Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District
Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District
stated on June 16, 2015 a press release
Replacing 100,000 old toilets with water-efficient models has saved 2.4 million gallons of water every day.
True
By April Hunt • July 7, 2015
Athens Banner-Herald
Athens Banner-Herald
stated on May 10, 2015 a news report
Between 1980 and 2010, water usage in Georgia dropped even as the state’s population grew.
True
By April Hunt • June 24, 2015
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."
Half-True
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."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 4, 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
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura
stated on December 2, 2014 an interview with Salon.com
"Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!"
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 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
Joe Garcia
Joe Garcia
stated on September 5, 2014 a web ad
Says U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo "supported raising flood insurance rates."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 16, 2014
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on MSNBC
"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."  
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 24, 2014
Austin Water Utility
Austin Water Utility
stated on May 27, 2014 as quoted in a StateImpact Texas news story
Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years’ worth of Austin’s water use.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 24, 2014
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."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • March 23, 2014
Robert Puente
Robert Puente
stated on September 20, 2013 a Texas Tribune Festival panel discussion
San Antonio has seen "67% growth" in water customers "in the last 25 years, 0% more water used."
False
By Sue Owen • January 17, 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
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