Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "5 Massive Failures That Will Ruin America" video.

  1. Untrue. The water plant I run is municipal. We are owned by our taxpayers. The water bill you get is for the half a million dollars a year worth of treatment chemicals we use to make Mississippi River water safe for drinking and in compliance with federal and state regulations, not to mention salaries, training, continuing education, hiring, maintenance of equipment, retirement, overtime, holiday pay...and the hundreds of miles of buried pipe and thousands of valves that actually deliver the water we make, well, that's another expense not part of my department, but it's not cheap. Always remember, water doesn't go anywhere, it's never lost, and it can always be purified. The freshwater we drink today was not always fresh, and not always drinkable. It's been here for billions of years, and it'll be here for billions more. Trust the water: it knows what it's doing, and it's been doing it a hell of a lot longer than we have.
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  2. Federal taxes don't build a single foot of water line or lay a single brick at any water plant. That all comes from LOCAL taxes. You might get some government loan help or 'grants' or some BS like that, maybe even a variance from some overbearing regulation it would double your costs to meet, but trust me with first hand knowledge, you ask the Feds for help with a water system, the best they'll do is give you directions to your State, County, and City officials, because they are the ones responsible and they are the ones who handle that tax/revenue policy. The ONLY way the Feds are getting involved is if a disaster is officially declared on both the State and Local level, in accordance with NIMS and the Stafford Act, which brings in FEMA. You want your infrastructure fixed? Were you at your last city council meeting or County board event? If not, then start there. Get it on the ballot. Get it passed. TL:DR it's that easy.
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  3. inebriated duck a Nitrification/Denitfirication activated sludge wastewater process does quite well also. We have such a plant, and its efffective enough we treat what is called lechate, the runoff out of the bottom of a local landfill, horrible stuff loaded with lead, mercury, acids, countless organic and inorganic contaminants. The landfill pays us by the gallon to treat this stuff, and going through with the rest of the sewage, we meet state and federal removal limits well enough to discharge directly into the Mississippi River. 4-log minimum removal on all heavy metals is our licensed standard, thats 99.99% removal. With lead there are two removal advantages you can exploit, its specific gravity and its chemistry. Lead is 1135% heavier than water, so it will settle out, or sedimentate, under gravity with time. Lead will also form lead hydroxide and precipitate out as a solid when pH is adjusted to between 8 and 10.5, with 9 being ideal. Of course, this ignores the biggest problem...the lead in the vast majoriy of cases comes from the customers own pipes, in their home. No government intervention can deal with that.
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  4. Isn't california almost half a trillion dollars in debt? How do they sustain that when they're walled off from the US after succession and all trade is sanctioned with them, oh, after the massive military operation against them of course. http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-s-400-billion-debt-worries-analysts-6812264.php
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  5. CA leaves the Union, ok, let's wargame this then: Film industry, gone. All movies from the enemy state banned from their largest market, the US. Largest Ports, 10 minutes, one flight of F16s or heavy bombers, gone, and what's left is blockaded by the most powerful Navy on earth, which Ca no longer has access to or protection of. Farms, ravaged, burned by infantry during the requisite civil war. Silicon Valley, major threat to US security and interests, if unable to occupy by ground force/air campaign, EMPed from orbit, done. Then the earthquake hits, and no help is on the way, ever. THEN the Japanese invade under the pretense of saving you from the earthquake. Saddest of all, you brought it on yourselves. Enjoy your Kempeitai
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  6. As a licensed water treatment professional, I unfortunately report that #1 is entirely true. Like so many things in today's society, we're now paying quite dearly for the choices made by those in generations before us.
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  7. Name Every community in the Us has or had lead containing water distribution systems, and virtually every home built before the 80s or 90s has lead containing fittings and pipes. It's very similar to asbestos in that it was used extensively for centuries until we learned of the health risks, and now we're left with it everywhere.
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