Federal investment in California's aging water infrastructure is necessary to provide national economic and environmental benefits, as well as forestall a water shortage that could prove more damaging than the current energy crisis, according to some.
A bill requires Florida Department of Environmental Protection to adopt primary and secondary drinking water regulations for non-transient, non-community water systems and transient non-community water systems, and authorizes the department to make loans to nonprofit transient non-community water systems.
Geologists say that within 25 years, the growing population of 560,000 in El Paso, Texas, will have used up the Hueco Bolson aquifer that sits below much of west Texas and parts of New Mexico.
President Bush has made a number of nominations to top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency posts, including G. Tracy Mehan to be assistant administrator for water.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christie Whitman recently announced that EPA will propose to withdraw the pending arsenic standard for drinking water that was issued on Jan. 22.
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