[Updated from 1/15/18] Walker says he's taking Wisconsin in the right direction, but if that leads to state waters, don't smell, drink or fish it, his own data show.



You might urge media and others to remind Walker of the increasing waterway pollution across Wisconsin on his watch documented in the posting that follows, and also that he's said here and here and elsewhere that he always leaves the environment cleaner than he found it.





And, yes, it's hard to track and keep straight all the legislation and executive actions since early 2011 that are intentionally undermining public health and enabling contamination and filth for profit in Wisconsin - - from wetlands filling to shoreline construction to green-lit groundwater contamination from big feedlots to new toxic sulfide mining permissions to proposed rollbacks in air quality to already-implemented, freshly-tolerated, algae-breeding phosphorous discharges into state waterways that all belong to the public.



And mentally underline "phosphorous" as you focus on just two facts gathered from the links that follow:



* There has been a doubling under Walker of the number of polluted waterways in the state since his 2011 swearing-in.





* And there have been more than eight times as many waterways - - 804 - - newly added to the official polluted lists - - government likes the sanitized label "impaired" - - than the 96 waterways improved enough to be removed from the lists.