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Clean Water: An Overview
Since the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, it has been responsible for significant improvements in the quality of our lakes and rivers. Unfortunately, America is still a long way from achieving the goal of cleaning up all of our nation's waterways. The Clean Water Campaign is working at the state and local level to protect sources of drinking water from pollution, defending federal and state clean water protections from attack, and addressing the largest sources of water pollution: sewage and storm water runoff.

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Feature: Every Day Critical Waters are Losing Protections

For decades, the Clean Water Act protected the Nation's surface water bodies from unregulated pollution and rescued them from the crisis status they were in during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now these vital protections are being lost. This report details the threat to our Nation's waters by examining dozens of case studies, and highlights the urgent need for Congress to restore full Clean Water Act protections to our waters.

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Feature: The Clean Water Act: How it Affects You

The Clean Water Act is commonly regarded as one of our country's most successful environmental laws. It is thanks to this piece of legislation that we have clean drinking water and clean lakes and rivers in which to recreate.

Today about 60% of our rivers and 55% of our lakes are safe for swimming and fishing, compared with just 36% in 1972. Unfortunately the progress we have made in cleaning our waters during the last three decades is now at risk.

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Feature: Your Drinking Water at Risk

All Americans deserve safe and healthy drinking water. Unfortunately, Supreme Court decisions and a recent Army Corps of Engineers guidance have lent strength to attempts by developers, the oil industry and polluters to strip Clean Water Act protections from the drinking water sources of communities both large and small. If these important waters lose longstanding protections, the EPA estimates that the drinking water sources of more than 110 million people could be at risk.

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Feature: Up the Creek, Lake, and Ocean

Excess nutrients from farm animal waste, fertilizers, human sewage, cars, coal-burning power plants, and storm water runoff from sprawling development and highways can have a destructive impact on our nation's waterways -- from Hawaii to Vermont.

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