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submitted 1 year ago by Raphael@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), on Thursday marked up a GOP appropriations bill for fiscal year 2024. A Republican fact sheet celebrates proposed "cuts to wasteful spending" and "claw-backs of prior appropriations," highlighting that it "reins in" the Environmental Protection Agency, "limits abuse of the Endangered Species Act," and provides protections for the fossil fuel industry.

The GOP proposal would slash appropriations for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF). The former provides low-interest loans for infrastructure projects like wastewater facilities while the latter provides assistance for initiatives like improving drinking water treatment and fixing old pipes.

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[-] Raphael@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Clean water is communism. You can just buy water, it is not free.

[-] ikiru@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

[-] DHYCIX@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It’s a clear liquid alright!!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

How can they possibly spin this as a good thing?

[-] Raphael@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The water is rusty because metal rusts over time, metal is a natural substance therefore rust is a natural substance as well. The human body is natural as it was created by God, therefore rusty water is not harmful to the human body.

[-] Unaware7013@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Bad water dumbs people down, which creates more voters for them.

[-] Matt_Shatt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They just want to let the local municipalities have the freedom to treat their own water how they want!

Unless it’s Austin or Houston or any blue city. Then the state will tell them how to not do it.

[-] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are the programs shown to actually improve anything or does it become a slush fund? Don't get caught up in the name of something, look into what it actually does (or doesn't do).

Edit to add: that's just one avenue, then you have alternate strategies to tackle the same problem

[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's the eleven categories of projects that CWSRF loans can be used for.

Here's the six categories of projects that DWSRF loans can be used for. The DWSRF also publishes a periodic Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey that lays out approximate costs for various system sizes, and the distribution of system sizes across communities.

There is also a lot of overlap; quoting the OP article:

The [CWSRF] provides low-interest loans for infrastructure projects like wastewater facilities while the [DWSRF] provides assistance for initiatives like improving drinking water treatment and fixing old pipes.

The CWSRF Environmental Benefits Report from 2014 says:

  • 14,838 Projects Financed
  • To 5,222 Communities

with one of the highlights being:

95% of Subsidy Goes to Recipients that Could Not Otherwise Afford the Project

With the variety of activities they support, and the fact that they are permitting projects that communities could not otherwise afford to engage in, I'd say they're very valuable.

[-] nix@merv.news 5 points 1 year ago

People who make such well sourced and written comments like yours is why i love lemmy/forum style communities.

[-] rusticus1773@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Do you really think regulatory agencies serve no purpose? Does not the FDA protect you from deadly medication side effects? Does not the government protect your water, air and ground? Do you think shit water is unsafe to drink?

TL/DR; have you no common sense?

[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

There is no such thing as "radical" right-wing ideology - right-wing ideology is reactionary. It is about as anti-radical as ideology gets.

The idea that people deserve proper drinking water is a radical one - the idea that people should be denied drinking water is about as reactionary as it gets.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All according to plan

"SEE, GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WORK*"

*except when we give police armored personnel carriers and attack drones or want to invade a foreign country

[-] moosh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Why is the GOP so fucking stupid? Living here makes my heart hurt.

[-] nix@merv.news 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do they want a Cholera pandemic to mix in with the sars2 pandemic?

[-] gogozero@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

that would be both stupid and evil, so to answer your question: probably yes

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

"POTABLE WATER IS FOR SOCIALISTS!!1"

[-] dragoonies@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Why don't we just cut funding for clean water in the states with the Senators and Congressional representatives that are voting for these bills?

[-] regul@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Because that's not how rivers work.

[-] hubba_bubba_luva@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Was this Nestle sponsored?

Air next?

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Straight into Space Balls territory

[-] rusticus1773@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

At this point, we might as well vote in a supermajority for Republicans and let them cut Medicare/Medicaid/social Security by 100% and revel in the corporate profits. Isn’t that the primary goal?

[-] Efwis@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

The GOP’s motto should be “profit before protection”

[-] DeanFogg@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

How low can the right go? Well we've blown past nazis and clean water. Let's see if the constituents continue to be little bitches like always. My money's on yep.

Why discipline your own when there's big scary woke people out there?

[-] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm taking a fat shit gassing my family and I even think this wrong

[-] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lol of course they do

[-] rusticus1773@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago
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