The Clean Water Act turns 50. Here’s how it changed our lives – By Amy Joi O’Donoghue (Deseret News) / Oct 18, 2022
Regulations, rules helped to start cleaning the nation’s waterways
There was a time when raw sewage was dumped in the Jordan River in Utah. It was an industrial wasteland, and once named the most endangered river in the country by an advocacy group.
Fast forward to today. Fires and floods can still pose threats to drinking water systems, and communities sometimes undergo boil orders to protect public health, but not like in years past.
Things have drastically changed with the passage of the Clean Water Act, which turns 50 years old on Tuesday.
“The Clean Water Act really incorporated better technology for sampling and detection of contaminants in the drinking water and helped us reduce the levels of contaminants in the drinking water with new detection limits and with new filter technologies,” said Scott Paxman, general manager of the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District.
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