If the lies are stopped, water main breaks, lead poisoning, and infectious disease can be stopped. No action is taken. The Vice President of the American Water Works Association censors pertinent public safety information, which has been published in other peer reviewed engineering journals.An estimated $60 billion per year repair industry supports the water industry.
Slandering my character to avoid facts, my local government in Aiken actively engages in a water main break coverup. In fact, a city worker offered to beat me up when I was investigating a water main break. I refused to back away.
The Killings
Unneeded killings affect multiple industries. Cancers and deaths during evacuations are expected for the next nuclear plant explosion deaths. People are burned to death and hospitalized every year by preventable gas pipeline explosions. Offshore oil rig explosions pepper the news with preventable fatalities. Preventable lead poisoning damages mental health for children and newborns. Preventable diseases such as E. Coli, Listeria, Legionella, and Cryptosporidiosis in drinking water hospitalize and kill people every year.
Murder or Not?One definition of murder is that a person acts with depraved disregard for human life. Every example cited here was related to pertinent government agencies, and they all refused to respond. Such actions disregard human life, and lives are needlessly lost. For previous and forthcoming killings, murder is a fair accusation against multiple government agencies.
Inroads Into the Lies
In a recent North American water loss conference, I learned that at least one city has worked to stop water main breaks. Perhaps government lies can be effectively refuted, albeit very slowly.
Even so, monumental profits blockade public safety to cost our lives and environmental protection. I refuse to back away.
Clarification
When no action is cited here, a lack of action to address a common water hammer damage mechanism is asserted. Water hammer and gas hammer pressure spikes due to flow rate changes initiate all disasters considered here. More than 140 of my engineering publications and Op Eds provide scientific proof of all claims provided in this Op Ed (.leishearengineeringllc.com/publications.html).
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