{"id":3127,"date":"2016-02-09T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:12:23","slug":"quote-for-the-day-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3127","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We have a lot of threats to the water supply.  And we have lots of really good professionals in the water industry who see themselves as protecting the public good.  But it doesn&#8217;t take much for our aging infrastructure or <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">an unprofessional actor<\/span> to allow that protection to fall apart.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/09\/us\/regulatory-gaps-leave-unsafe-lead-levels-in-water-nationwide.html\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/09\/us\/regulatory-gaps-leave-unsafe-lead-levels-in-water-nationwide.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths<\/a><\/a><br \/>Professor of Public Health, Tufts University<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a lot to sort out before we will know exactly what happened to Flint&#8217;s water supply, but here is the bottom line: America&#8217;s civil engineers deliver billions of gallons of safe drinking water every single day, week-after-week, month-after-month, year-after-year, decade-after-decade; we know how to do that.  However incendiary and distracting the politics surrounding the use of emergency managers to rehabilitate failing cities, this was a failure of professionalism; specific, identifiable individuals did not do their job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a lot of threats to the water supply. And we have lots of really good professionals in the water industry who see themselves as protecting the public good. But it doesn&#8217;t take much for our aging infrastructure or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}