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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: Saying NO to the Yazoo Pumps project

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with the support of some members of Congress, is proposing a massive, destructive drainage plan called the Yazoo Pumps project in the Mississippi Delta. If implemented, the Yazoo Pumps would be the world's largest pumping system, cost the taxpayers $220 million, and drain 200,000 acres of hardwood forest and critical fish and wildlife habitat.

The Environmental Protection Agency should veto this destructive project. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson is considering a veto that would put an end to the Corps' plan. We applaud Administrator Johnson's action to reject the Yazoo Pumps, which would lead to the destruction of critical wetlands.

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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.

	Check out the sick waters clickable map to see what we mean.
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