It wasn’t the news of polluting runoff that caught my attention in your article, but the startling statistic that the 3 million annual increase in the U.S. population costs $480 billion in construction costs alone. That’s $160,000 dollars for each added person!
John Brooks Lake Shastina, Calif.
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