Restoring Our Water Systems Should Be Top Priority for Biden Administration
(WorldNews Environment)

The Biden-Harris transition team identified COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change as its top priorities. Rivers are the through-line linking all of them. The fact is, healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the “nice-to-have” column of environmental progress. Rivers and streams provide more than 60 percent of our drinking water — and a clear path toward public health, a strong economy, a more just society and greater resilience to the impacts of the climate crisis. Public Health Let`s begin with COVID-19. More than 24.1 million Americans have contracted the coronavirus and, tragically, more than 400,000 have died due to the pandemic. While health officials...