Essay Archive - Keep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act
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 cl....
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