Problems & Solutions

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Each of us becomes interested in the Clean Water Act for different reasons.

Those reasons are generally based on what you are trying to protect or fight. This part of the course allows you to follow a path to the best tools that can help you in your specific areas of interest. We will be expanding these problem areas and the paths that they offer, but for now, we are giving you the basics that were presented in "The Clean Water Act: An Owner's Manual."

We cover the following Problems & Solutions:

bulletDrinking Water Contamination
bulletPoor Development & Sprawl
bulletPoor Stormwater Management
bulletCombined & Sanitary Sewer Overflows
bulletDestruction of Wetlands
bulletLoss of Natural Streamflows
bulletDam Building and Poor Dam Operation
bulletPoor Agricultural Practices and Runoff
bulletConcentrated Animal Feeding Operations
bulletPoor Mining Practices and Abandoned Mines
bulletPoor Forestry Practices
bulletLoss of Species and Ecological Integrity

Please review the Problems & Solutions in this section by navigating from the left hand menu, and then proceed to Take the Course where you will find out much more about the Clean Water Act. Finally, you can Test Your Knowledge.