All Water statements

California has "the same water infrastructure from when we were 16 million people."  

— PolitiFact California on Tuesday, May 31st, 2016

Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.  

— PolitiFact Global News Service on Thursday, May 12th, 2016

"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations."  

— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, March 31st, 2016

"(Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, March 7th, 2016

"Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower."

— PolitiFact Georgia on Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

To abide by Environmental Protection Agency rules when mining or drilling you have "to take caution not to disturb bodies of water barely bigger than a puddle."  

— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

Replacing 100,000 old toilets with water-efficient models has saved 2.4 million gallons of water every day.

— PolitiFact Georgia on Tuesday, July 7th, 2015

Between 1980 and 2010, water usage in Georgia dropped even as the state’s population grew.

— PolitiFact Georgia on Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

"Austin is the only city in an arid landscape in the western United States dependent on a single source of water."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, May 18th, 2015

Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, May 4th, 2015

"We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

"The city of San Antonio reuses almost 40 percent of its water. You know how much the city of Austin reuses? About 5 percent. And that's not right. We can do better."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, December 11th, 2014

"Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!"

— PunditFact on Monday, December 8th, 2014

"We have spent $350 million to deal with sea-level rise" in the Miami area and "hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with coral reefs."

— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

Says U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo "supported raising flood insurance rates."

— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."  

— PunditFact on Thursday, July 24th, 2014

Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years’ worth of Austin’s water use.

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

"Every 20 seconds, a child dies because they lack access to clean water and sanitation."

— PunditFact on Sunday, March 23rd, 2014

San Antonio has seen "67% growth" in water customers "in the last 25 years, 0% more water used."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, January 17th, 2014

"Onion Creek’s highest flow rate" on a recent night of flooding "was 120,000 cubic feet per second, which is nearly double the average flow rate of Niagara Falls."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, November 14th, 2013