Claim: Says the mayor's job "is to make sure that if somebody is trying to build a set of water treatment plants to cure us from cryptosporidium we don't have, we don't say yes even if CH2M Hill wants us to."
Fact-check: Did the City of Portland agree to treat its water because a contractor said we should? 
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Janie Har
Date published: 2012-05-05T00:00:00