Abdul El-Sayed offers up the most comprehensive water plan of the gubernatorial race
The jury’s still out on whether or not Abdul El-Sayed, gubernatorial hopeful and former executive director of the Detroit Health Department, will sink or swim in the partisan primary on Aug. 7.
But the candidate has recently released a water policy plan that is the most comprehensive call for change released on either side of the aisle to date.
In Michigan, water can be surprisingly hard to come by in a state surrounded by 84 percent of North America’s surface fresh water supply. Yet Michigan captured national attention when families in Flint were exposed to poisonous amounts of lead. Each year, Detroit shuts off water in thousands of homes with delinquent bills. And a water main break put Oakland County under a mandatory boil water advisory for seven days in October, all while pollution and invasive species threaten the Great Lakes.
“This is an issue, where if you wanted to look at how the state has failed in providing very basic sets of investments, this is clearly one of them,” El-Sayed says. “We can’t seem to protect access to [water] for people who need it, or protect it and make sure that it’s safe and healthy to begin with.”
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