Overview of SDWA Source Water Protection Programs

摘要

Thn Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) amendments of 1996 are replete with provisions that expand current efforts to protect source water. As a result, source water protection has become a national priority. The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has set as a goal that local source water protection programs be in place by 2005 to protect water supplies in 30,000 communities that serve 60 percent of the US population.