James Larew is an attorney in Iowa City who served as general counsel and chief of staff for former Governor Chet Culver. This post is a revised version of a letter he sent to Polk County supervisors as a public comment before their July 1 meeting.
We are on the cusp of a civil rights movement—a movement to protect citizens’ fundamental right to access clean water.
In the mid-1840s, our ancestors marveled at the “well-watered” rivers and creeks and the readily-available water supply…