If Not You, Who?

The operative agency for The Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act 2005 is USAID.
USAID is interested in giveaways for government public relations.

There are hundreds of government and Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) giving or bartering treatments for symptoms of poverty, malnutrition and disease (world wide). They do good works. Many are large and employ many people in their home and beneficiary countries.

Good water, however, is prevention. Prevention reduces the need for treatment.

Who could object to that?

Of course, there are purely competitive reasons like, prevention cuts into the charity, charcoal, medicine, narcotics, oil, religion, water, and government businesses.

NOAA established regulations in response to the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act but rescinded them in 1996 as there hadn't been a single application...something about the $250,000.00 application filing fee. There are other federal agencies with a crowbar in the machinery, protecting their paying constituents.

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