Quotes about "Education & Learning"

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste. ”

Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe. ”

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly. ”

There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems. ”

In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared. ”

There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air. ”

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ”

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. ”

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. ”

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. ”