Lesson 1: Water Quality Standards

River protection and restoration under the Clean Water Act begins with water quality standards. If you're worried about pollution limits at the factory upstream from your favorite fishing stretch, or wondering if your local swimming hole is safe for kids to swim in, or questioning what your volunteer monitoring results mean...you need to know more about water quality standards.

In this lesson you'll learn how water quality standards are established under the Act and -- more importantly -- how you can make sure those standards protect you, your neighbors and the aquatic life of your local rivers, lakes, and wetlands.

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Citizens speak out to protect uses in Kentucky streams

Kentucky Waterways Alliance and local residents give voices -- and protection -- to trout in headwater streams.

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