Just as a
child with the flu can infect a whole classroom, pollution in these waterways
could taint all the waters they connect with, imperiling drinking water sources
and endangered species from coast to coast.
Just a few examples:
- Sixty percent of creeks and streams
in California could lose Clean Water Act protection.
- The Central Closed Basin, a
14,605-square-mile sub-watershed of the Rio Grande, stretching from
Albuquerque into Mexico, could lose protection.
- Irrigation ditches that run for
250 miles along just one creek in the
Rogue River watershed could lose protection.
- Montana’s Big Hole River, home to the last
native sustaining population of Arctic Grayling in the lower 48 United
States, could lose protection.
Our complete work on this proposal is here.
“It’s vital to the health of our larger rivers that these smaller
rivers are protected,” says Wade Fellin, program director of Upper Missouri
Waterkeeper.
All our waters deserve protection. Speak up now to preserve the
Clean Water Act’s protections for waterways around the country. We are close to 5,000 comments from
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