Term Papers on Keep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act

Term Paper Title	Keep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.79

Keep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act

     The Clean Water Act has made advances to our society that have helped
our environment to flourish with life. The objective of the Act when it was
enacted in 1972 was to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and
biological integrity of the Nation's water. This objective was accompanied by
other statutory goals to eliminate the discharge of pollutants into waters used
by boats by 1985 and to attain waters deemed “fishable or swimmable” by 1983. So
far, the Act has done exactly what it was meant to do. Its purpose is being
served and we our benefiting with clean water.

     No where in the context of the Clean Water Act does it say anything
about respecting the convenience of businesses wishing to dump their toxins into
our waters. The Act was not meant to please everyone, but it was meant to clean
our water, and that should please a wide majority. We should not have to
sacrifice our health for a business that does nothing for us. Clean water is
much more of a priority to us citizens than is the well being of a company that
we probably have never heard of and never will.

     If the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1995 are passed, all that we have
worked for since 1972 will be lost. It will take all of the advances made to
clean our water and totally reverse them. This bill will take apart the National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, leaving loopholes for businesses
desiring to pollute our waters. This bill also demonstrates a flagrant disregard
for the state of scientific and technological knowledge in the area of water
quality. It will corrupt our water in such a way as to totally abolish the Clean
Water Act, rendering it obsolete.

     The intent of the of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1995 is to
increase flexibility on businesses, States, local governments, and landowners.
This increase in flexibility is meant to relax some regulations dealing with the
discharge of wastes and stormwater into waterways, authority of States to rely
on voluntary measures to control nonpoint source pollution, limit Federal
authority to restrict land use in wetlands, and require the Federal Government
to reimburse landowners for loss of property value resulting from wetlands
regulations. All of these measures will make it easier for toxins to be thrown
into our drinking water by businesses with no remorse.

     This bill is supposedly supposed to help our environment, but it seems
to me that this bill is driven by political and economic interests, rather than
the well being of our environment. Why should we be more linient in the
protection of our water so a business may have a place to dump its wastes in.
Rather, we should enforce the protection of our water so that businesses are
forced to go elsewhere with their wastes. Our water is far to valuable for it to
be polluted and toxicated with...

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