clean water act
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Hima Tammineedi
• NPDES
• Point Sources
• Technology had to be updated (WQS)
• TMDLs
• Non-Point sources
Impacts- Clean water
- Survival
- Taking care of the environment
- More fishable and swimmable
- 36% in 1972 -62% in 1998.
- In 1972, only 32% of the population -
74% in 1998.
Amendments
• NPDES permits to release pollutants < TMDLS
• States and the EPA > power
• NPDES permit
Bibliography
• http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/wacademy/acad2000/cwa/index.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act
• http://www.epa.gov/regulations/laws/cwahistory.html
• http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01590/pollution/cwa.html
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