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Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water ACT: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water ACT: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water ACT
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The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from point sources such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other non-point sources have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an orphan from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
Language
English
Pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Release
March 08, 2008
ISBN
0309114098
ISBN 13
9780309114097

Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water ACT: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water ACT
5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from point sources such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other non-point sources have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an orphan from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
Language
English
Pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Release
March 08, 2008
ISBN
0309114098
ISBN 13
9780309114097

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