Our Rivers, Lakes And Streams Reports
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| 2010-06-22 | |
| From the Chesapeake Bay to the Puget Sound to the Great Lakes to the San Francisco Bay, Americans throughout the country depend on our waters for fishing, recreation and clean drinking water. Unfortunately, our waters continue to be plagued by high levels of pollution. To restore and protect our great waters, Environment America is calling on Congress to pass legislation this summer that will reduce pollution, increase investments in restoration efforts, and protect our most treasured places for generations to come. | |
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| 2010-02-10 | |
| 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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| 2009-10-21 | |
| Industrial facilities continue to dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters each year – threatening both the environment and human health. According to the EPA, pollution from industrial facilities is responsible for threatening or fouling water quality in more than 10,000 miles of rivers and more than 200,000 acres of lakes, ponds and estuaries nationwide. | |
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| 2008-08-05 | |
| Water is a precious commodity in the Southwest, yet the rate of water consumption outstrips natural supply. Rapid population growth, excessive water consumption, water pollution, and years of drought have depleted the Southwest's natural water reserves and put the region at greater risk of a water crisis. | |
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| 2008-07-29 | |
| Along Ohio's Lake Erie coast, beach advisories are an all too frequent fixture. Last year, Ohio ranked second in the nation for the number of water samples that exceeded pollution limits at coastal beaches, according to an annual beach water quality report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Ohio Environmental Council, and Environment Ohio. | |
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| 2008-01-31 | |
| Through case studies of five of New Hampshire’s most treasured waterways – the Great Bay Estuary, Lake Sunapee, the Connecticut River, Lake Winnipesaukee, and the Merrimack River – this report analyzes how rampant growth, pollution, and water withdrawals threaten to destroy the renowned beauty and health of the state’s waterways. | |
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| 2007-10-11 | |
| October 18, 2007 marks the 35th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a landmark law intended to restore and maintain the physical, chemical and biological integrity of the nation's waters. In passing the Clean Water Act, Congress set the goals of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation's waterways by 1985 and making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983. | |
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| 2007-06-08 | |
| Perchlorate, the major ingredient in rocket fuel, pollutes the drinking water supplies of Rialto - a small working class, mostly minority community nestled beneath California's San Bernardino Mountains. In this policy brief, a solution is outlined that would require polluters who dump dangerous chemicals into drinking water to clean up their mess. | |
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| 2007-05-23 | |
| More than thirty years after the Cuyahoga River was engulfed in flames and the Clean Water Act was passed to clean up America’s waterways, Ohio’s lakes, rivers, and streams continue to be plagued by pollution. | |
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| 2007-02-28 | |
| This report identifies 10 special rivers in the Southeast of exceptional beauty, recreational value and ecological importance. | |
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| 2007-01-23 | |
| Report shows that runoff from development is threatening Wisconsin’s waters and the solution is better implementation and enforcement of the 2002 Runoff Prevention Law. | |
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| 2006-10-26 | |
| The primary threat facing North Carolina's waters is polluted runoff. Polluted water means a loss of clean drinking water, clear swimming holes, healthy fish, and recreational tourism. Fortunately, North Carolina has the ability to protect our remaining pristine rivers and streams. | |
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| 2006-09-13 | |
| Water is our most precious natural resource. Humans, plants, and animals all need it for survival. However, unplanned and unsustainable development, drought, pollution and lack of conservation and efficiency, has left our water future uncertain. | |
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| 2006-08-03 | |
| In 2005, the number of closing and advisory days at ocean, bay, and Great Lakes beaches topped 20,000, more than at any other time in the 16 years the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been tracking them. | |
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| 2006-05-24 | |
| As North Carolina works to meet the needs of its growing population, reining in polluted runoff will be a critical step in achieving the water quality goals of the Clean Water Act. | |
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| 2006-03-23 | |
| More than two decades after the drafters of the Clean Water Act hoped that all waterways would be pollution-free, facilities across the country continue to discharge more pollution into our waterways than allowed under the law. | |
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| 2006-03-08 | |
| Arizona could face a potential water supply crisis by 2025, meaning that existing water supplies may not be adequate to meet demands for people, farms, or the environment. | |
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| 2006-02-02 | |
| To restore nine of the largest polluted waterways in the state to health, legally mandated cleanup plans drafted by California’s water boards must be strengthened. To put the state on a path to a clean water future, the plans should stop new pollution from entering the waterways, clean up existing contamination, ensure flows sufficient to maintain healthy water quality and restore essential habitat. | |
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| 2005-09-10 | |
| Water use in Michigan is currently a free-for-all. Lack of effective laws allows large users to treat Michigan’s waterways and the Great Lakes like their own private wells, drawing off unlimited quantities of water without regard for how it will impact nearby waterways or other users. As a result, large water users are leaving residents without access to clean water, destroying fish and wildlife habitat, and diminishing the value of property. | |
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| 2005-05-26 | |
| Most states around the Great Lakes have weak, nonexistent or unevenly enforced sewage dumping public notification laws and regulations. Citizens deserve to know when the waterways in their neighborhoods are unsafe because of sewage dumping. | |
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| 2004-03-30 | |
| More than two decades after the drafters of the Clean Water Act hoped that all waterways would be pollution-free, facilities across the country continue to discharge more pollution into our waterways than allowed under the law. | |
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