Down The Sewer Pipe – Politically Speaking

If you are a member of a city council, or an alderman, there are decisions that you cannot make. This is because the Federal, State, or County government has already made those decisions for you. In these you will have zero discretion. There is, generally, no appeal to make life easier either.

For instance, the Federal government determines how clean your cities’ potable water is to be. The State determines just what processes your city can use to meet the Federal clean water requirements. The state determines if your city can use a well or can use ground water. Either way the requirements vary, depending of which method of providing potable water to the cities’ population you choose.

You will not be able to use any other process without doing extensive research, and testing even if the process is used successfully at any other place on the globe. Why? Because the process you want to use does not show up in the book that the state has of approved potable water processes. And nom the state isn’t going to use their money to run the tests to see if the process you want to use, VS the process you are forced to use, is workable and meets the Federal requirements. That is on you.

As an elected official of a city council, you will find that housing density, water treatment, wastewater treatment, trash removal, are several things that your city has no control over. And this sad fact is something you need to convey to your constitutions.