My Personal Response to Poisoned Waters and the Clean Water Act

I chose to see the frontline series of "Poisoned Waters". This documentary shows environmental problems in case studies including Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound. By studying these rising pollutants as well as industrial pollutants such as PCB, lead, mercury, agricultural pollution. America made many waterways in this country movable again, and stopped swimming. This is the goal set by Congress about 40 years ago. Chesapeake Bay is contaminated with agricultural waste.

For over a decade, under the landmark "Water Purification Law" there was confusion about which watersheds were protected - and there was extensive legal argument. In most cases this confusion affects small rivers, ponds, wetlands, especially occasionally depleted wetlands. In 2015, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Army passed a water purification regulation to clarify the legal protection of tens of millions of acres of wetlands and thousands of streams in the United States. These waters plays an important role. It is worth noting that more than 117 million Americans receive drinking water from public systems supplied by streams dependent on water, seasons or rain. The wetland area of ​​the mainland of the United States is approximately 110 million acres, supplying with contaminated runoff and supplying groundwater.

We rely on clean drinking water, crop irrigation, swimming and fishing, and wildlife habitat. Wetlands and other water reduce floods and filter pollution. Since 1972, the Water Purification Law is one of our earliest and most important environmental laws and is helping to restore and protect the water of our country. This regulation is designed to ensure that water bodies performing these basic functions are protected against contamination and damage, as defined by the Water Purification Law. The Trump regime adopted the water purification law as a wastewater target, but today's action did not kill it. The obsolete rule requires a complete public process. It must be proved by law and available evidence. For the new government this will depend on a wide range of scientific records, which will easily match the Congressional requirements in the Water Cleaning Act, so this will be rude sleigh.

The Water Purification Law passed in 1972 is an epoch-making law focusing on the Federal Water Pollution Control Law in 1948. The Water Pollution Control Law protects US water by regulating pollutants and setting the water quality standards of the surface. To protect the waters of the United States, this law specifically restricts pollutants from flowing from pointy water sources to navigable waters including man-made grooves and pipelines.