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Houston's Troubled Waters

Start Here

ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

After a power outage at water treatment facilities, Houston tells 2 million residents to boil their water. Hawaii's largest volcano begins to erupt after decades of quiet. And millions of student loan borrowers are confused about when they'll have to resume payments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Slack.com slash DHQ. It's Tuesday, November 29th, and they wish they were told about

0:32.5

their water before they spent all day drinking it. We start here.

0:35.9

Millions of Texans are told your water might not be safe. We shouldn't drink it, we shouldn't

0:43.7

cook with it. Take it to Houston where questions have been pouring in. Hawaii's biggest volcano

0:49.1

is erupting. My locals are hoping to say hello and goodbye quickly, and the Biden administration

0:59.8

is pushed back student loan guidelines yet again, so what does it mean for you?

1:04.1

How much authority does a president have? Can he with a stroke of a pen make big decisions?

1:09.5

Forget deadline. Some graduates still don't know how much they owe.

1:15.0

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.

1:26.3

Among the most basic things a local government can do for its people is infrastructure, right?

1:30.9

roads, electricity, sewer lines, and of course, clean water. You lose any of those things

1:35.4

and your people are immediately less safe. There have been instances in this country

1:39.3

where running water has been tainted too often, its marginalized communities that are hit

1:43.6

hardest and longest. But rarely have we seen such a wide swath of Americans lose access

1:49.0

to clean water all at once than in Houston this week.

1:52.5

The water is not clean for us, and so we shouldn't drink it, we shouldn't cook with it,

1:58.4

we shouldn't give it to ourselves to drink or even to our pets.

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