One method is to invest in international companies so governments can sell the water sector to the public. However, this approach has its own problems such as the inability to supply on what was agreed, which in turn can leave large parts of the population with an unreliable water supply. To raise awareness of the corruption in the water industry the governments need to increase the monitoring of the industry as a whole. More data must be collected so that the levels of transparency are increased, and the organizations or individuals that are not doing what they are supposed to get exposed.

However, Mayor de Blasio called this event “a miracle”, and in a press conference went on to talk about how we should be thankful that there weren’t more deaths and damage. Some believe this relaxed viewpoint towards the construction industry a problem that needs to be addressed.

For example, Mayor de Blasio paid more attention to ban horses over his two years span as Mayor, rather than tackling the growing problems with the construction industry. All across the city construction sites are making too much noise. Fines are given out, but they are worthless because the noise pollution is permitted to continue.

Here is a statement that shows how the Mayor fails to take this event seriously: “We’ve had some real serious issues on construction sites. But that is different from what we’ve seen here.”

During the past year there has been a 50% fatality increase causing 18 deaths, and mostly it’s because of negligence and incompetence. The problem here is that the crane owners have killed an individual, but will continue to lift and lower cranes.

This is a real problem that needs to be addressed, but by reading into Mayor de Blasio comments made at the hour-long State of the City speech on Thursday, it won’t be any time soon.

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