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Removing Government From U.S. Water Supply May Make Safer
…NCPA Report Shows Water Privatization Will Ensure Safe, Sufficient and … Inexpensive Water Supplies Dallas (May 14, 2009) - Because drinking … water supply and treatment facilities are run by the … government, Americans may be drinking water that is unsafe or from sources that need to be … for Policy Analysis. According to the EPA, many water systems need to be upgraded or replaced at an …
Removing the Political Shortage of Water
…About 82 percent of Americans receive drinking water via publicly owned water systems, according to … cover the cost of treating and delivering the water. Many water authorities are critically behind on … They lack the capital to update their water purification and wastewater treatment plants or … to secure additional water supplies to meet expected growth in demand. … Privatization could solve these water supply problems. The majority of drinking water …
Oberstar's Proposal To Revise Clean Water Act Is More Than EPA Can Handle
…word "navigable" from the 1972 Clean Water Act would be bad for private property, bad for … or private property that the feds deem to have water or wetlands," Burnett said. "The … government should have no jurisdiction over waters, and more importantly, over occasional soggy … ruling, which set the limits on the kinds of waterways the EPA can regulate, Congress should support … federal control to strictly "navigable" waters that are explicitly created and controlled by …
Courts Missed Opportunity On Wetlands, Made Situation Worse
…who co-authored the study. The 1972 Clean Water Act expanded federal authority over … "navigable waterways" to prevent pollution. But with a … vague definition of navigable waterways, the Clean Water Act was vulnerable to wide … interpretation and soon very little water was left outside the scope of the Environmental … Supreme Court ruling radically expanded the Clean Water Act to encompass regulation of any discharge into …
California Senate Rejects Dam Proposal
…according to Schwarzenegger, are providing secure water supplies for a growing population in the face of … reservoirs to increase California's above-ground water supply. They and the governor note two-thirds of … from the Sierra Nevada Mountains for drinking water. In addition, central California farmers use … researchers at California's Department of Water Resources, say the state's water supply is … in spending on various conservation, groundwater storage, and environmental protection and …
Kennedy Pollutes the Truth about Bush Environment Record
A Toxic Brew
…methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) seeps into water systems from leaking underground gas tanks. That … only real competition as a fuel additive, absorbs water, and thus cannot be shipped through pipelines … used to transport unblended gasoline—the water it absorbs could separate, causing pipelines and … tanks it leeches relatively rapidly into ground water, contaminating local water supplies. While not … carcinogenic, it does make the water supply smell awful and taste rancid—the …
Energy, MTBE and Politics: A Toxic Brew
…storage tanks it moves fairly quickly into ground water, contaminating local water supplies. While not … carcinogenic, it does make the water supply smell awful and taste rancid — … basically making the water undrinkable. Thus far, 16 of the U.S.’s … 3,776 public water systems have been contaminated by MTBE spills or … MTBE contamination is an ongoing threat for other water supplies. Can’t you just hear the …
Warming: Famine or Feast?
…warming trend has not resulted in agricultural water shortages. Indeed, rainfall is increasing … the world because global warming evaporates more water from the oceans, where it falls back down to … release huge tonnages of additional CO2. (Cold water can hold much more of a gas than warmer water). … speeds the growth of plants, it improves their water use efficiency. More CO2 also decreases water … plant growth increased 31 percent under optimal water conditions, and 63 percent under water scarcity. …
New EPA Wetland Regulations A Victory For Private Property Owners
…between intermittent streams and nearby navigable waterways. "This is fantastic news for private … on the barest of connections to navigable waterways. These guidelines will help reinforce … held wetlands in particular." The 1972 Clean Water Act expanded federal authority over … "navigable waterways" to prevent pollution. However, … because the definition of navigable waterways was so vague that very little navigable water …
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