Amos... been around for years. Stormwater management regarding capture and storage will be incorporated in many future designs IF the politicians listen to the engineers.

The track record of the politicians is not good (no shit, Sherlock!). They only rely on getting re-elected based on the stupidity of the populace.

I have been in MANY meetings where I was chastised, based on personal greed, for my designs ... "What do you mean you designed "it" for a fourty year life cycle? The president has a five year term! You have to build it for a lot less... and by the end of the fiscal year."

Fookin idiots! But, it happens every day and it's not limited to paving a parking lot or widening a street or.... It applies to, oh, say, the Alberta Tar Sands... the tragedy in Hungary.

I think it's about time that politicians were considered professionals who are libel for their actions. They get paid well and should should have to be held accountable for their actions. When they do things that are at odds to what they are advised to do by doctors, laywers, engineers.... and things get fucked up, they should be held accountable, in a court of law, financially and criminally.