I hope it's not just a photo op

摘要

I'm happy to see that infrastructure, especially water supply, has been in the news lately, although I retain my jaded skepticism. The first big story was in the New York Times Magazine, a lengthy profile of the "troublemaker scientist," Dr. Marc Edwards from Virginia Tech. Dr. Edwards was the guy who blew the whistle on the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. The Times reported that scrawled on the side of an old brick pump house in Flint was some unusual graffiti: "You want our trust? We want Va. Tech." By Va. Tech, they meant Marc Edwards.