M5.2 Safe Drinking Water

Water is the basic unit of life; 70% of the human body is made up of water, this just tell you how important water is. Before any kind of regulation was created in the U.S, only 1/3 of the water was safe to drink and for fishing. In 1970, the population of the U.S was 205 million, but only 80 million people had access to ware that was treated by a water treatment facility. The role of any government should be to protect the water that is available and to ensure all it's citizen have access to clean water. Though, in recent says, the current administration has rolled back the water rule that prohibited companies to dump waste in water streams.

In 1972, with the opposition form President Nixon, the Clean water Act was sign into law by Congress. The purpose of the law was to restore and maintain the nations water, provide assistance to treatment facilities to assure that the water was properly treated and to maintain the wetland in the U.S. The law had several goals that have not been met. The act was to make all U.S waters fishable and swimmable by 1983, have zero water pollution discharge by 1985, and to prohibit the discharge of toxic amounts of pollutants. As of today, these goals have not been met, and it seems the the U.S is going backwards on its protection of water. The Safe drinking water Act which made made into law in 1974 ensures that public drinking water meets specific safety standards. Both acts work together to allow the EPA to pose regulations on water facilities to provide clean and safe water. These laws need to be strictly enforced to avoid dangerous chemicals in our water, the  and government should take full responsibility when citizens are not provided by clean and safe water.