The City Council on Monday
issued its formal response to Mayor Bill de Blasio's $ 82 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2017, capping a month of budget hearings that were
fraught with
concerns over how Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget would affect the city and how prepared the city's coffers are for a rainy day.
Water in the Middle East is no longer just an environmental
concern but also a
fraught political
issue, as allocation of water resources and wastewater treatment develop into additional sources of conflict between Israel and its neighboring countries.