Cure for the Nation's Water Pollution Problem : Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act

Our Nation's waters -- our most precious natural resource -- are rapidly being transformed into a vast, rancid sewer. Scarcely an uncontaminated body of water, mostly untreated, pours into our waterways from farms, factories, and cities. And despite Administration claims of progress, the situation is getting worse. Present Government programs are hopelessly inadequate. The preceding comments describe the state of our nation's waters and water pollution control efforts in the early 1970s. This paper discusses federal and state implementation of the water quality-based strategy. It focuses on the development and implementation of water quality standards-based limitations (namely, total maximum daily loads or "TMDLs") under section 303(d). It addresses the impact of such limitations on entities and activities that generate water pollution.Air Force Inst of Tech Wright-Patterson AFB OH is the author of 'Cure for the Nation's Water Pollution Problem : Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act', published 1998 under ISBN 9781423554479 and ISBN 1423554477.