Clean Water Program Reports
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| 2007-10-11 | |
| Fifty seven percent of all major U.S. industrial and municipal facilities discharged more pollution into U.S. waterways than allowed by law at least once during 2005. The average facility exceeded its pollution permit limit by 263 percent, discharging close to four times the legal limit. 23 facilities in Arizona reported 200 violations of their Clean Water Act permits in 2005. On average, Arizona facilities exceeding their Clean Water Act permits did so by 821.6% or by 9 times the legal limit. | |
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| 2006-04-23 | |
| When drafting the Clean Water Act in 1972, legislators set the goals of making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985. More than 30 years later, we are far from realizing the Clean Water Act’s original vision. | |
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