This special 12 minute express edition of DemocracyHere! explores Portland's plan to spend $500 million dollars to take our open reservoirs off line are replace them with new underground tanks and features:
Interviews with public health and infectious disease specialists;
Sounds from the earth-day rally at city hall in support of our natural water system;
Information on how lower income citizens will be affected by the increase in water rates;
Interviews with Floy Jones for the citizen-activist perspective and Kent Craford for an alliance of local businesses;
and
Voices of government officials ranging from Portland Water Bureau Administrator David Shaff to the EPA administrator Lisa Jackson.
- KBOO