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cascading stream Federal Clean Water Laws

How Safe is Your Drinking Water?

Complications of an Aging Water Infrastructure

The Dead Zone

Beaches

Federal Clean Water Laws

  • States Voice Strong Opposition

  • Does the Supreme Court Ruling Justify Administration's Actions?

  • The significance of "isolated" wetlands

  • How would weakening the Clean Water Act effect your state?
  • Read more about one of nations oldest, most successful environmental laws, the Clean Water Act.
  • EPA and the Bush Administration Threaten to Undermine Clean Water Standards
  • Several members of Congress introduced legislation to protect wetlands and other waters. The legislation responds to a Supreme Court ruling that undermines water protections. Read more about it.
  • How Safe is Your Drinking Water?

  • Use the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Query Form to locate your drinking water supplier and view its violations and enforcement history since 1993. The site contains information that states must report to EPA as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act.

  • Also see the EPA's water databases and contact your water supplier and ask to see their "Consumer Confidence Report" that is required by EPA to detail water quality problems

  • About Face: EPA Accepts Stricter Standard for Arsenic Levels in Drinking Water

  • Facts About Arsenic

  • Complications of Aging Water Infrastructure

  • Something Stinks: The Bush Administration Exposes Americans to Raw Sewage (217kb PDF)

  • New Bill in Congress: Protecting Your Right-to-Know about Sewage Overflows

  • Principles and Criteria for Water Infrastructure Funding Bill

  • Sanitary Sewer Overflow

  • The Dead Zone

  • The Dead Zone
  • Beaches

  • Water Quality at Our Beaches, 2001 Update

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