Clean Safe Drinking Water

Clean Safe Drinking Water apparently is something in need of deregulation.

The Assembly has passed AB 23, which would, unless mandated by federal law, end a DNR requirement that municipal water systems be continuously disinfected.

Passed by an Assembly with short memories.  The Assembly rejected 21 Democratic amendments including those requiring disclosure.

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More details in this JSOnline article, which also shares the sorta relevant fact that the clean water standards that this bill rejects aren't actually in place yet.

The Department of Natural Resources advanced regulations in 2009 that would have required municipalities to disinfect water by Dec. 1, 2013....A study by the Marshfield Clinic Foundation tested water in 14 communities between 2005 and 2007 and found that 34 of the 36 wells tested positive for viruses. None of the communities chlorinated their public water systems.

Also:  remember my post yesterday about the proposal by the Joint Finance Committee to reduce the state subsidy for sewer projects?  I said that it "might" lead to better zoning policies.  But in light of the following sentence from today's JSOnline article, perhaps not such a good idea to shift the cost to local municipalities.

Most of the communities in the study were in northern Wisconsin. Borchardt traced the likely sources of the viruses to leaking sanitary sewers. People who got sick tended to contract gastrointestinal illnesses.