Interactive Map Shows if Your Drinking Water Is at Risk From Trump's Executive Order

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Made a note to self to call Senators and Reps about this tomorrow.



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Interactive Map Shows if Your Drinking Water Is at Risk From Trump's Executive Order
Mar. 02, 2017 02:56PM EST

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By Craig Cox and Soren Rundquist

The Trump administration is threatening to remove safeguards that protect the drinking water of more than one-third of Americans.

Some 117 million people get at least some of their drinking water from small streams. For 72 million people in 1,033 counties, more than half of their drinking water comes from small streams. Ensuring that their water is safe means keeping the water in these streams clean.
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Right now, the Clean Water Act protects these streams from pollution. But this week President Trump issued an executive order directing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to rescind or revise the Clean Water Rule or replace it with a new rule.

This critically important rule determines which streams, rivers and lakes are protected from pollution by the Clean Water Act. The rule also extends protection for millions of acres of wetlands that filter drinking water.

Industry and agribusiness have been pushing for years to roll back the Clean Water Rule and protect only the biggest streams and rivers. Now they've found a friend in the Trump administration.

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The EPA mapped a Source Protection Area or SPA, for every public drinking water system. The agency defined an SPA as "the area upstream from a drinking water intake that provides water to a public drinking water system during a 24-hour period."

The EPA's approach likely underestimates the contribution small steams make to drinking water supplies. Small streams feed the large rivers that millions of people rely on for drinking water, but are too far upstream from the drinking water intake to be included in the EPA's analysis.

In the map below, the blue shaded area is a SPA. Water from streams in the SPA will reach the intake, indicated by a red dot, within 24 hours. ...........................................

[dchill]

1. In Trumpistan, we are all Flint.

Drink up.

[safeinOhio]

4. What happens when you elect a business man

Governor or President.

[mucifer]

2. If your water comes from The Great Lakes they are planning on cutting funding by 97%

The proposed cuts, reported by the Detroit Free Press on Thursday, would slash annual funding for the $300 million program to $10 million. The restoration initiative is an ecological recovery program for the Great Lakes that combats invasive species, curbs nutrient-fueled algae blooms, cleans up toxic messes and restores sensitive fish and wildlife habitat.

“Cuts of this magnitude would be devastating to the efforts of our two countries over the past five decades to restore the resource," said David Ullrich, executive director of The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, which represents mayors from more than 125 U.S. and Canadian cities in the Great Lakes basin.

Ullrich said the cuts also will undermine all of the lake restoration and protection efforts underway by local governments, which are collectively far more significant than the federal restoration initiative launched by the Obama administration in 2010.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2017/03/04/mayors-conservationists-blast-possible-cuts-great-lakes-restoration-work/98742414/

[bdamomma]

3. This regime is a threat

to all of us, I think they would methodically want to kill many of us by putting forth these cuts to the EPA.

This regime needs to be imprisoned.