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Clean drinking water a bigger global threat than climate change, EPA’s Wheeler says

CBS News interview with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler

CBS News

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler says that unsafe drinking water — not climate change — poses the greatest and most immediate global threat to the environment. “We have 1,000 children die every day worldwide because they don’t have safe drinking water,” Wheeler told CBS News. “That’s a crisis that I think we can solve.”