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Paul Tonko: Our first priority is to protect public health, and if we can't control that on the source side, then drinking water…

On the recordNovember 18, 2014
Our first priority is to protect public health, and if we can't control that on the source side, then drinking water utilities will have no alternative but to increase their treatment capability, and the cost associated with that would be transferred to our customers.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Emphasizing the need to control contaminants in source water to protect public health.

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