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Contaminated water was a major cause of disease in the U.S. until the end of the nineteenth century and still today there are frequent outbreaks of waterborne disease. Classic public health concern focused on diseases cause by pathogens such as cholera bacteria, but in recent decades drinking water supplies have been contaminated by minerals such as asbestos or chemicals such as PCBs. The Clean Water Act of 1972 and 1977 set limits on point source pollution and provided funding for wastewater treatment facilities.
Please discuss the following in initial post:
- Why were state and local laws concerning air and water pollution ineffective, leading the federal government to pass legislation in the 1970s?
- How does the EPA enforce their regulation and laws?
- The EPA website, www.epa.gov (Links to an external site.), posts information regularly on contaminants identified in the water supply. Have there been any reports posted about the safety of your water in your community?
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Running Head: POLLUTION
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Pollution
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POLLUTION
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The country and adjacent specialists were futile in implementing lawful rules contrary to
toxins since they couldn't put in constrain contamination issues that were bigger than their
country (Schneider, 2006, p. 363). There are various cases of why the country and its
neighborhood officers had been currently not an achievement in anticipating contrary to
contamination and one of the obvious intentions in poisons tragedies that we have these days
begun inside the 1950's to 1960's with the development of vehicles" (Schneider, 2006, p. 352).
The Federal government took no less than 3 years to start affecting trade in the earth to
help diminish contamination. The state and neighborhood governments had no way to deal with
authorize laws or secure the territory individual...
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