Adoption and Safe Families Act

The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) is a government agency that was developed to manage Southern Nevada’s water needs. The SNWA has worked persistently to manage and diversify their water resources in order to be one step further along in the process of ensuring water in their regions for many years to come. The pipeline is about partnering with other states and regions to ensure communities are protected for guaranteeing future water sources when needed. SNWA would like to move forward…

Safe drinking water act The EPA states that the safe drinking water act is a federal law used to ensure safe and clean drinking water for the public. Every single water public water system applies has to apply to this law. There are about 155000 public water systems providing water to almost all Americans to water in some time in their life. The government made the act so Americans can have safer drinking water and cleaner lakes and river by regulating. Warner magnuson introduced the act to…

In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act in hopes of establishing a basic structure for regulating safe drinking water. The goal with this act was to regulate the amount of pollution that was discharged into the waters. In 1948, Congress passed Federal Water Pollution Control Act which later expanded into what is now the Clean Water Act. It is quite obvious that the government has been putting a decent effort into providing safe drinking water for the citizens. If the government is making an…

Imagine a world in which the water was undrinkable, the land was unfertile and the air was suffocating. This is the world consumed by fracking. Fracking is harmful to the environment but seems to be making its way still around the world. Understanding the risk and the benefit ration and becoming educated about the ramifications should be a requirement to the decision makers determining whether an area will allow fracking or not. “The process of this hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation…

permanent full time position as a Water & Wastewater Maintenance Operator with the Municipality of Middlesex Centre. I am a team oriented individual with the skills, ability and commitment to provide delivery of high-quality, reliable drinking water and safe, effective wastewater treatment as a direct result of operational and customer service excellence. I have water distribution experience including water main chamber inspection, valve location, valve operation, hydrant flushing, swabbing,…

catastrophic event, major changes and regulations were established concerning water quality all across the country. However, Canada has not yet implemented sufficient operations to ensure all Canadians have access to safe drinking water in addition to preventing similar future events. Canada does not act in accordance…

To ensure that its drinking water is safe, Dallas Water Utilities, the most used water system in Dallas, “tests the water 40,000 to 50,000 times every month, including tests for many more chemicals than government standards require” (City of Dallas Water Quality Report). While Dallas’ water is reported to be safe, it does contain contaminants. Most of the contaminants in the water are below the maximum level required to be safe; however, the arsenic found in the water is below the…

In 2005, the Energy Act gave Big Oil the right to slowly destroy our lands, impact our personal health, and to make huge sums of money extracting shale gas from both private and public owned lands, all under the disguise of energy independence. The act contains an exception loophole called the Halliburton Loophole. It is time for this loophole to be closed; for the protection of the health and for the safety of the country. According to Kate Sheppard, Senior Reporter and environment and energy…

Lead consumption in drinking water Many people who have consumed lead may have to face some serious problems with lead. Consuming water that contains lead, is not only unhealthy but could be fatal. Drinking water that lead is in, can affect many body systems and even do some serious damage. There are many ways that lead can affect people. Lead is known as something that is very dangerous if consumed. A little bit of lead can affect the human's body and the way in functions. If any lead gets in…

Water contamination was a topic covered throughout the semester in CEE 320. In recent times, the city of Flint, Michigan has faced problems with contaminants in the local water supply. The city of Flint decided to cut ties from Detroit, the former supplier of its fresh water, after it was announced that Detroit was raising their prices (Habicht and Kilty, 2016). Flint created a plan to use water from Lake Huron as its main source of water: however, this plan could not be implemented for another…