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Washington D.C. Business Directory, See also: Federalist Party Annapolis Convention (1786) and United States Bill of Rights, Lowest elevation 0 ft (0 m) 10 External links. The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (i.e WASA or D.C Water) is an independent authority of the D.C government that provides drinking water and wastewater collection in Washington WASA purchases water from the historic Washington Aqueduct which is operated by the Army Corps of Engineers the water sourced from the Potomac River is treated and stored in the city's Dalecarlia Georgetown and McMillan reservoirs the aqueduct provides drinking water for a total of 1.1 million people in the District and Virginia including Arlington Falls Church and a portion of Fairfax County the authority also provides sewage treatment services for an additional 1.6 million people in four surrounding Maryland and Virginia counties. The Washington Metropolitan Area is the ninth-largest television media market in the nation with two million homes approximately 2% of the country's population. Several media companies and cable television channels have their headquarters in the area including C-SPAN; Black Entertainment Television (BET); Radio One; the National Geographic Channel; Smithsonian Networks; National Public Radio (NPR); Travel Channel (in Chevy Chase Maryland); Discovery Communications (in Silver Spring Maryland); and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (in Arlington Virginia) the headquarters of Voice of America the U.S government's international news service is near the Capitol in Southwest Washington. There are 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of streets parkways and avenues in the District. Due to the freeway revolts of the 1960s much of the proposed interstate highway system through the middle of Washington was never built Interstate 95 (I-95) the nation's major east coast highway therefore bends around the District to form the eastern portion of the Capital Beltway a portion of the proposed highway funding was directed to the region's public transportation infrastructure instead the interstate highways that continue into Washington including I-66 and I-395 both terminate shortly after entering the city, The United States Capitol after the burning of Washington D.C in the War of 1812 Watercolor and ink depiction from 1814 restored. Slavery Manifest destiny, Dulles was initially considered a white elephant being far out of town with few flights; in 1965 Dulles averaged 89 airline operations a day while National Airport (now Reagan) averaged 600 despite not allowing jets. (Dulles got its first transatlantic nonstop in June 1964.) Airport operations grew along with Virginia suburbs and the Dulles Technology Corridor; perimeter and slot restrictions at National forced long-distance flights to use Dulles in 1969 Dulles had 2.01 million passengers while National had 9.9 million.

. . Washington believed that the Stamp Act of 1765 was an "Act of Oppression" and he celebrated its repeal the following year.[h] in March 1766 Parliament passed the Declaratory Act asserting that Parliamentary law superseded colonial law. Washington helped to lead widespread protests against the Townshend Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 and he introduced a proposal in May 1769 drafted by George Mason which called Virginians to boycott English goods; the Acts were mostly repealed in 1770, Slaves for sale a scene in New Orleans 1861 1 Origin Each of the city's eight wards elects a single member of the council and residents elect four at-large members to represent the District as a whole the council chair is also elected at-large. There are 37 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs) elected by small neighborhood districts ANCs can issue recommendations on all issues that affect residents; government agencies take their advice under careful consideration the Attorney General of the District of Columbia currently Karl Racine is elected to a four-year term. . Same-sex marriage has been legal in the District since 2010 and conversion therapy has been forbidden since 2015 Assisted suicide is also permitted in the district with a bill legalizing the practice being introduced in 2015 signed by mayor Muriel Bowser in 2016 and going into effect in 2017 making Washington D.C the seventh jurisdiction in the United States to have legalized assisted suicide along with Washington Oregon California Colorado Hawaii Montana and Vermont.