Carl Zimmer

They've actually said now, we think this should be law.

We think these should be government mandates.

We have government mandates for clean water.

We have government mandates for clean food.

We don't just say like, you know, it'd be nice, you know, if...

you know, if your bottled water didn't have cholera in it.

Like, we wouldn't make a little prize.

Who's got the least cholera in their water?

We don't do that.

We don't expect that.

We expect more.

We expect, like, you know, when you get the water, you know, or if you get, you know, anything, you expect it to be clean, and you expect people to be following the law.

So what Joseph Allen, Lydia Marosca, Lindsay Marr, and others are saying is, like, okay, let's have a law.

And just to jump in for a second, just to circle back to William and Mildred Wells,

none of what I just said is new.

Richard and Mildred Wells were saying over and over again in speeches they gave, in letters they wrote to friends, they were like, we've had this incredible revolution in the early 1900s of getting clean water and clean food.

Why don't we have clean air yet?

We deserve clean air.

Everyone deserves clean air.

And so really all that people like Lindsay Marr and Joseph Allen and others are doing is trying to finally deliver on that call almost a century later.