Imagine this… muddy water, bottles floating everywhere, fish dying, and smelly lakes. These were the descriptions of the U.S’s waterways before 1972. We were in serious trouble. Some waterways became wasteland of smelly water and floating sludge. All over the country people were troubled about how we employed water and they let the government know. The effect was the Water Act of 1972 and its goals were to make water "fishable and swimmable."
Ask yourself how many times you use water. If you say none, well, let’s just say it’s impossible. We use water so greatly that we take advantage of it. We use water for so many things such as cooking, brushing your teeth, flushing the toilet, etc. Now add that up for your friends and family members. Now for the entire country. You see what I mean? How will we conserve water and make sure it is clean? Fear not because the government has found a way.
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to its original quality. This law banned the right to dump toxic and pollutants into the U.S.’s waterways. Factories and other plants were no longer free of charge to get rid of their waste in the U.S’s waterways. The factories had to pay for the release of toxic into the waters, or they had to get special permission from the government, limiting the amount of toxic waste they could discharge into the water. They also had to keep track of how much of the waste they released and describe their hard work to lessen contamination. The act approved money to go to cities and towns to help them improve their treatment plants, also. People looked for innovative and cheap ways to decrease toxic waste from factories without hurting the