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The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the cornerstone of
surface water quality protection in the United States. (The Act does not
deal directly with ground water nor with water quantity issues.) The
statute employs a variety of regulatory and nonregulatory tools to
sharply reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways, finance
municipal wastewater treatment facilities, and manage polluted runoff.
These tools are employed to achieve the broader goal of restoring and
maintaining the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the
nation's waters so that they can support "the protection and propagation
of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and recreation in and on the water."
The above paragraph came from the EPA's Watershed Academy Web.
Please click the following links to learn more about the Clean Water
Act.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Watershed Academy Web |
