Tonko Promotes $8 Billion Drinking Water Bill At Albany Med.
The city of Albany alone has 317 miles of water pipes, some of which are 135 years old.
Nationwide, Tonko says leaking pipes lose an estimated 7 billion gallons of clean drinking water every day, there are more than 700 water main breaks every day, and there may be as many as 10 million lead-contaminated service lines in use.
Tonko is promoting the Drinking Water System Improvement Act of 2017.
Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan says clean water is an important component of economic growth and development.
Albany Med used almost 77 million gallons of water at its main site in 2016.
"I wanna thank Albany Medical Center for being a large user of our water and we take your faith in us very seriously, and we are making investments every day to ensure that our drinking water is safe and that we are able to supply water at the right pressures to our customers."
Drinking Water By the Numbers: · Albany, NY alone has 317 miles of pipes, some of them as much as 135 years old · 86% of U.S. households rely on public water supplies.
· Leaking pipes lose an estimated 7 billion gallons of clean drinking water every day.
· There are more than 700 water main breaks every day.

Tonko Promotes $8 Billion Drinking Water Bill At Albany Med.
The city of Albany alone has 317 miles of water pipes, some of which are 135 years old.
Nationwide, Tonko says leaking pipes lose an estimated 7 billion gallons of clean drinking water every day, there are more than 700 water main breaks every day, and there may be as many as 10 million lead-contaminated service lines in use.
Tonko is promoting the Drinking Water System Improvement Act of 2017.
Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan says clean water is an important component of economic growth and development.
Albany Med used almost 77 million gallons of water at its main site in 2016.
"I wanna thank Albany Medical Center for being a large user of our water and we take your faith in us very seriously, and we are making investments every day to ensure that our drinking water is safe and that we are able to supply water at the right pressures to our customers."
Drinking Water By the Numbers: · Albany, NY alone has 317 miles of pipes, some of them as much as 135 years old · 86% of U.S. households rely on public water supplies.
· Leaking pipes lose an estimated 7 billion gallons of clean drinking water every day.
· There are more than 700 water main breaks every day.

Cuomo Denies Permit for Northern Access Pipeline.
More than 400 people came to Albany, New York on April 5, 2016 to urge the Cuomo administration to reject shale gas projects in New York state.
Photo credit: Erik McGregor New York State blocked the Northern Access Project on March 7, a pipeline that would have carried fracked gas from Pennsylvania to Canada via New York.
This is a huge victory not just for New Yorkers but for the entire planet.
Without 401 certification, the natural gas pipeline cannot go forward within the state.
The pipeline would have directly harmed 192 streams, 600 acres of forests and more than 17 acres of wetlands in the state and would have crossed one sole source aquifer—the Cattaraugus Creek Basin Aquifer System—the sole source of drinking water for 20,000 residents in Cattaraugus, Erie and Wyoming counties in New York.
DEC’s decision to deny 401 certification for the pipeline is not the first time that Gov.
Cuomo has taken bold action to protect the environment.
In 2015, New York State was the first state with natural gas resources to ban fracking in the U.S. and in 2016, the State denied a 401 certification to Constitution pipeline, another natural gas pipeline that could have significantly harmed state water quality.
We commend Gov.Cuomo and Commissioner Seggos’ decision to stop this pipeline from moving forward.