Politicians have a tendency to create issues that only have one side to them. So we have "Mothers Against Drunk Drivers"
'Mothers' against drunk driving' was created by a woman whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver and who was the subject of a TV movie about the death and her subsequent activism. Likewise, there are people who lobby for clean water because their local water supply has become polluted, typically by agricultural or industrial concerns in a 'tragedy of the commons' situation where the externalities of production are not billed to the producer.
I don't understand why you're ascribing the existence of such lobbies to politicians. Nobody campaigns for dirty water, but there are plenty of politicians who speak against the EPA and implicitly support their constituents' wish to pollute for free.
'Mothers' against drunk driving' was created by a woman whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver and who was the subject of a TV movie about the death and her subsequent activism. Likewise, there are people who lobby for clean water because their local water supply has become polluted, typically by agricultural or industrial concerns in a 'tragedy of the commons' situation where the externalities of production are not billed to the producer.
I don't understand why you're ascribing the existence of such lobbies to politicians. Nobody campaigns for dirty water, but there are plenty of politicians who speak against the EPA and implicitly support their constituents' wish to pollute for free.