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Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Remarks to the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
Posted 3/23/09
Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Remarks to the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
From The EPA:
In almost four decades we’ve reached a much better place. In the vast majority of communities, we’ve met the goals for safe water set in the 1970s. But we still face daunting challenges. While we’ve cut the flow of many conventional pollutants into our tap water sources, we now face challenges from other pollutants from less conventional sources. Not the visible oil slicks and industrial waste of the past, but the invisible pollutants that we’ve only recently had the science to detect. There are a range of chemicals that have become more prevalent in our products, our water, and our bodies in the last 50 years. Those many thousands of chemicals are the great unfinished business of the 1974 Act.
We also face serious issues of deferred maintenance in our infrastructure. I know that many of you are doing everything you can with systems that are over-worked and under-budgeted. Many urban communities are struggling to modernize their systems. Rural communities are struggling to meet safe drinking water standards. In places like California, Arizona, Georgia and Texas we see the demand for clean water increasing while supplies are tapering off – or outright disappearing in droughts.
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