Clean Water Act
This Act was created in
What is 1972?
This Act was created in
What is 1974?
From 2011 to 2015, this city was under a state receivership due to financial troubles by the city
What is Flint, Michigan?
This overarching authority supplies funds to assist states and localities in regulatory and remediation activities to meet the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act, it’s almost never enough money.
What is the federal government?
Although water covers 71% of the Earth’s surface, less than ___ is freshwater?
What is less 1%?
This Act was first amended
What is 1977
This Act was rewritten in
What is 1996?
Required that community water treatment systems provide annual Consumer Confidence reports
Provided funding to localities to help improve their systems
In September, it became clear that this river's water was corroding lead pipes, leading to a dangerous spike in lead levels in the public water supply.
What is the Flint River?
These are used to kill microbes in water and may also be harmful to drinkers.
What are chemicals?
Water scarcity (supply of freshwater is inadequate to meet the demands of the local population), lack of clean drinking water, and inadequate sanitation are significant challenges faced in these regions.
What is many parts of the world?
The two national goals of the Clean Water Act.
What is to 1) make U.S. waters are safe for fishing and swimming 2) while eliminating pollutant discharges?
The basic steps to decontaminate or treat water.
What is Sedimentation, Coagulation, Filtration and
Disinfection?
The corrosion of lead pipes in Flint was caused by this type of water, which led to dangerously high levels of lead in the city's water supply.
What is acidic water?
These pollutants have not been researched much, and their potential impact on health is not well understood.
What are hormones, pharmaceuticals, and household chemicals?
In the U.S.,_______ disputes over water shortages have already begun.
What is political?
These are well-defined locations that discharge pollutants into lakes and rivers; two of the biggest are municipal sewage and industrial discharges.
What is Point-Source Pollution?
These were not regulated under the Safe Water Drinking Act.
What are private wells?
In 2017, these were filed against 15 state and local officials involved in the Flint case.
What is criminal charges?
This is a struggle for many communities, both small and large, to ensure safe drinking water.
What is cost?
These underground layers of rock or sediment store and transmit groundwater, providing a crucial source of fresh water for wells and springs and are being depleted at rapid rates.
What are aquifers?
This comes from stormwater runoff from farmland, construction sites, and urban street.
What is Nonpoint-source pollution?
This is under the regulation of the FDA, which requires it to meet the EPA’s standards, but enforcement is not strict.
What is bottled water?
In 2019, the state implemented this fund which charges modest fees to dairy producers and fertilizer manufacturers, as well as a $0.95-per-month voluntary contribution by residential water customers that are collected via water bills; funds are used to improve water quality in needier areas.
What is the Safe and Affordable Water Drinking Fund?
This provides useful data for evaluating (1) the adequacy of existing water treatment technologies and (2) the effectiveness of drinking water regulations.
What is CDC surveillance?
Pure water is both a_______ and a____________.
What is limited resource and public health necessity?