Charles Duhigg of the New York Times delivers this indictment of sewer systems in New York City and across the country, which violate clean water laws regularly by allowing raw sewage and chemicals into America’s rivers and streams, usually when routine rainfall overwhelms the systems.  More than one-third of sewer systems report violating the law in this way, yet “fewer than one in five sewage systems that broke the law were ever fined or otherwise sanctioned.”  So that’s a job for EPA or Justice.  But fixing these sewage systems — a very significant infrastructure project that would also have health and ecological benefits for the entire country — are the kind of jobs the Obama administration should be creating.   (And yes, I almost always agree with Bob Herbert).

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