When E. coli in spinach makes hundreds of people sick, the Centers for
Disease Control is all over it. But when millions of people every year get sick from the same bacteria from broken sewer pipes, the CDC has nothing to say.
Last year, there were 73,000 sewer spills in America. And it is getting
worse. This is America’s most widespread and preventable public health care
emergency. And it is time the CDC stared talking about it.
I am the president and CEO of Insituform Technologies, a publicly traded
company (INSU) that repairs more sewer, water, and oil pipes than any
company in the world. So I see first hand what bad pipes are doing – all over the country.
Thomas Rooney
Chesterfield