Any action from FEMA or any govt agency? I would hope they would be bringing in and rationing drinking water.
This looks like a major disaster from what I understand, and the situation has the potential to deteriorate rather quickly.
This looks like a major disaster from what I understand, and the situation has the potential to deteriorate rather quickly.
Don't forget, thanks to state rights, they have to be invited in.
I would think that would be pretty obvious...
And given the influence of mining companies in the region, I say there is a high probability that is the case.
This of course never leads to governments using this to play politics to be able to blame the Federal Government to make themselves look better, or the Federal Government look bad. No that would never happen.
States rights make it so that each state can dictate policy best suited and tuned for its own population--and so that it can be held more directly responsible by its populace.
The federal government isn't going to be dictating people in Austin all wear winter coats because it gets cold in Jeuno. But they are hindered in their ability to render aid to the very people they govern because each state acts like its own little country.
Well, they have a very similar need for clean water and unless chemistry varies wildly across state lines, some sort of coordinated response would seem sensible.
That indicates one issue with splitting political power into states: most American political differences are urban/suburban/rural, not regional. Austonians and San Franciscans have more in common with each other than they do with other areas of their own states, and California's Central Valley would get along fine with West Texas. But SF and the Central Valley don't get along, and West Texas and Austin don't get along.
I also understand people mostly accept and support mining, as it is seen as the only real economic driver in the state. This might change that perspective, depending on how it is handled.