Last week, water experts marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act with a dire warning: After evaluating over 700,000 miles of rivers and 
streams across the country, they concluded that half of those waters are too polluted to fish or swim in—and agriculture is often to blame.
“This is difficult politically, but we have to confront the fact that agricultural runoff is really the leading cause of water pollution in the U.S. today,” said Eric Schaeffer, executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project (EPI), an environmental watchdog founded by former EPA enforcement attorneys, at an online press conference Thursday. He added that the failure to confront agriculture “is probably the biggest program failure in the Clean Water Act.”
It’s time for a major rethink!
March 22nd is World Water Day and we all need to do what we can to protect our groundwater.
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