This problem does not only affect school children, adults, babies, politicians, alt-leftists or alt-rightists.
This is a problem that can affect every citizen of the United States.
The problem is clean drinking water and stems from many sources, such as pipelines surrounding areas of water supply and Flint, Michigan.
Why deprive people of water that is safe to drink?
The protests were for their right to access clean drinking water.
The Dakota Access Pipeline’s website reads that, “The DAPL is the safest and most environmentally sensitive way to transport crude oil from domestic wells to American consumers.” The DAPL has had five spills in six months as of January 2018.
The money was, in part, an acknowledgment of the months of anti-pipeline protests that had taxed local agencies during construction, but it was also a nod to the possibility of environmental contamination,” “The Intercept” reporter Alleen Brown said.
There are also water problems engulfing poor rural areas in the United States.
Households lose their access to water on a daily basis simply because they cannot afford their bills.
To combat this, the Environmental Protection Agency has recommended that water and wastewater services should not make up more than 4.5 percent of a household’s income.