Indiana is #1 in filthy water. Environ. Integrity Project reports: about 25K miles of rivers & creeks R impaired: so polluted ppl shouldn’t swim in or eat fish from. Little Wildcat Creek ran across my parents’ farm. Water was so clear that from one bank, formed by the raised...1/4

bed of the abandoned interurban railroad, you could see sunfish guarding nests of pebbles at the base of the opposite bank. Long ago that H2O has been brown fr agricultural runoff. Clean water is important to good health & not a luxury. Pollution costs more money, long-term. 2/4

Indiana should (1) channel programs for agriculture to address runoff (2) make sure we get the most Fed tax dollars back here to make our water clean and (3) figure who are biggest individual polluters & require their CEOs to live right downstream fr source of their crap. 3/4

We should have water clean enough to drink rt out of the stream w/o fear of illness. I’m Mark Small: pro-choice, pro-environment, pro-civil rts & pro-democracy. I’m GOP candidate for Indiana House Distr 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 4/4