City of Cincinnati to Close Water Intake at GCWW

Yet again, local government succeeds where national government fails.

That's a specific case of the more broad rule of "small is agile, large is cumbersome". It also applies to private enterprise. A small company of 10 can do in a week what takes a company of 1000 a month to get approved.

The larger something is the more paperwork is involved, but also the more factors they have to consider. National government can't put in individual rules for every single water body in the country. They need general rules that cover broad categories. Such rules are a lot more complicated.

After the pusillanimous response from the sec of transportation, who didn't even pull a poor version of Obama drinking Flint water after that scandal, it's good to see other governments taking the threat seriously. Maybe the concentrations are dilute enough not to worry a few hundred miles downstream, but let's follow the science here before "boldly" declaring the water safe to drink.

An abundance of precaution seems warranted, to manage public sentiment if nothing else.