THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, December 20, 1995 TAG: 9512200013
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A18 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
In ``Come, a toast (not with water) to Senator Warner'' (Another View, Dec. 13), Robert Morris, director of the Center of Environmental Epidemiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, discusses the difficulty that water-supply systems in the country have in controlling the parasite Cryptosporidium. Reading this piece, one would almost conclude that Senator Warner was solely responsible for this tragedy but, no, he was only guilty of being in the majority of senators who rejected Sen. Barbara Boxer's, D-Calif., amendment to the Safe Drinking Water Act regarding the ``community right to know'' about ``what's in their water and what standards of purity and safety are being violated.'' Surely this would have generated a passel of new rules and an army of new bureaucrats.
I wonder if Robert Morris wrote to all of the newspapers of the other 50-plus senators who voted against this amendment and how many were naive enough to print it. Or is this your first move in the election campaign of 1996?
CHARLES J. DEVINE JR., M.D.
Norfolk, Dec. 13, 1995 by CNB