But cutting corners, saving a buck, at the expensive of the innocent, in property or lives, kinda pisses me off. By any party.

When the EPA subcontractor breached the Gold King Mine, polluting a river, what got me mad was the fact that they were warned that this might happen. A fifty foot drill hole could have told them of the hydrologic situation in the adit. That'd cost money, and the locals opposed declaring this a super-fund site, cause that'd cost money. But the resulting spill cost more than any of the proposed remediation's budget.

Remember that old commercial for oil filters? "You can pay me now, or you can pay me later?" That a five dollar filter every now and again would keep you from having to re-build your engine for thousands of dollars, was the moral of the 30 second spot.

It's like that.

Could we spend the extra 30K to treat the new water properly?

And worse, could we listen to the doctors and scientists that are telling us that something is wrong? Could we listen to the people who say there is something wrong by shaking a bottle full of brown tap water at a politician? And then call them alarmists. That things are so much better now, you don't mind slipping back a bit, do ya?

We are better than this. Our innovative and modern infrastructure (substantially government funded) is what made this country the economic powerhouse that it is. Not maintaining it, not improving it, is not buying an oil filter for your car. We will pay for it later.

Ooops. Am I getting partisan?