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Goal: Promote health for all through a healthy environment
Short update: The safe drinking water; community water systems increased 55% towards the targeted goal (8-5)
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Progress: The proportion of the population served by community water systems meeting EPA standards (8-5) increased from 84 percent to 90 percent, achieving 55 percent of its targeted change by 2003. Notably, 90 percent of the U.S. population is served by such water systems.
Disparities: None
Opportunities and Challenges: The passage of the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act in October 2000 amended the Clean Water Act to (1) establish a national grants program to improve consistency of water quality standards, beach monitoring, and public notification approaches and (2) strengthen national information collection. EPA established its BEACH program to promote greater consistency in beach health programs and to provide better information to the public.
Emerging Issues: Beach monitoring programs are typically run by local health agencies, and programs vary by location. Monitoring results are inconsistent because agencies use different indicator organisms and varying monitoring frequencies.
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Title: A bill to provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.
Sponsor: Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] (introduced 3/17/2009) Cosponsors (2)
Latest Major Action: 3/17/2009 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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Safe drinking water is a very important issue to focus on.. good job on your post!
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ReplyDeleteI also agree with Autumn that this topic is a very important issue for everyone worldwide. Good choice, and nice job with this post!
Ingrid- Interesting topic. Are you going to use any of the information from our water privatization unit when writing a letter to a representative? I think this is very interesting to read about, it affects so many!! Healthy water in America could make an impact worldwide! --S
ReplyDeleteIngrid- I think that it is great that you choose this topic and it was really amazing after watching the video that we are making a difference like you stat said, that safe drinking water is up 56%! Thats great and i am excited to see what you fink out in your continued research! Keep up the great work ingy!
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