However we look at it, it comes down to this: When it comes to sewage treatment and clean
, safe water, we are all in this together. Most Americans flush their toilets upstream of somebody's water supply and turn on their kitchen faucet downstream of somebody else's sewage treatment plant. By putting off the day when we get serious about our water pollution investment needs, we run an ever greater risk of handing our children a world of polluted, dangerous water, rare and unsafe seafood, and scarce wildlife.