Lake Washington |
Lake Washington |
The water issues in Florida are complex and the discussion isn’t going away anytime soon. Fight For Zero did a water quality concern poll prior to the meeting and found that 88% of people are not very confident that the tap water in their home is safe to drink.
The 1972 Clean Water Act is the country's main tool to controlling source water pollution.
The 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act authorizes the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set national health-based standards for drinking water to protect against contaminants that are naturally occurring and/or caused by human activity.
The EPA's 1991 Lead and Copper Rule requires systems to monitor drinking water rat customer taps. If lead concentrations exceed an action level of 15 ppt or copper concentrations exceed an action level of 1.3 ppm in more than 10 percent of customer taps sampled, the system must undertake a number of additional actions to control corrosion and safeguard health.
The safety of water from private wells are NOT REGULATED by the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act. More than one in five wells tested from 1991-2004 contained one or more contaminates at concentration create than a human-health benchmark.
A 2016 study found that levels of poly-fluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exceeded federally recommended safety levels in public drinking water supplies for 6 million people in the United States.
The Environmental Protection Agencies Legislation snd regulations.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection Document Management System: OCULUS
The most prevalent water quality problem is excess of nutrient (mainly phosphorus and nitrogen) in a body of water.
Coal-burning plants in particular discharge some of the most dangerous heavy metals on earth, including arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, and selenium.
Waste can introduce pathogens such as Shigella, Salmonella, Crytosporidum, Giarida, Legionella and coliform into drinking water, leading to diarrhea and gastrointestinal illness.
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