Public Water, Public Violations: What You're Drinking is in Question
August 12, 2015 : Santa Barbara, CA : BWW
:
In
a
country
of
over
300
million
people,
there
are
approximately
155,000
public
water
systems
in
the
United
States,
which
provides
the
majority
of
municipal
water
to
the
average
American.
But
what
happens
when
those
public
water
systems
are
not
reliable?
The
Safe
Drinking
Water
Act
(SDWA)
program
is
the
main
federal
law
that
ensures
the
quality
of
drinking
water
by
regulating
public
water
systems
(PWS).
Under
SDWA,
the
Environmental
Protection
Agency
(EPA)
sets
standards
for
drinking
water
quality
and
oversees
each
state,
as
well
as
federally-recognized
tribes,
and
territories
that
implement
the
drinking
water
program.
EPA
monitors
individual
water
systems
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Water Proverb: "If we lived in a desert and our lives depended on a water supply that came out of a steel tube, we would inevitably watch that tube and talk about it understandingly. No citizen would need to be lectured about his duty toward its care and spurred to help if it were in danger. Teachers of civics in such a community might develop a sense of public responsibility, not only by describing the remote beginnings of the commonwealth, but also how that tube got built, how long it would last, how vital the intake might be if the rainfall on the forested mountains nearby ever changed in seasonal habit ot amount. It would be a most unimaginative person, or a stupid one, who could not see the vital relation between the mountains, the forests, that tube and himself."
Isaiah Bowman, 'Headwaters Control and Use - Influence of Vegetation on Land-Water Relationships' 1937.
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