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Restore Clean Water Act Protections
Water is Nevada’s most precious natural resource. We squander this resource every time polluters discharge toxins into our waters, aquifers or the rivers of states that supply us with water.
Our drinking water supplies can only be as clean as the sources that feed them. But recent Supreme Court decisions gutted 30 years of protections provided by the Clean Water Act, effectively writing thousands of streams and millions of acres of wetlands across the United States right out of the law. As a result, the Clean Water Act now only applies to major, navigable rivers like the Colorado. Virtually all of Nevada’s waters have been removed from the law.
Toxic discharges from mines constitute the single largest threat to Nevada’s waters. To defend our water supplies, Environment Nevada is asking our members of Congress to support the Clean Water Restoration Act.