People in Massachusetts depend on these rivers. They’re where we love to swim, fish and do many other things. They supply us with clean drinking water, we should be doing all we can to protect them.Polluting companies has put our nation's waters in jeopardy by creating loopholes in the Clean Water Act, leaving 4,200 miles of Massachusetts' streams open to pollution. The miners are dumping toxin chemicals in our clean water. That’s nearly 2 million miles of our streams at risk, threatening the drinking water of 117 million Americans. They also put at risk 20 million acres of wetlands, an area the size of South Carolina and home to millions of birds and fish.
http://www.environmentmassachusetts.org/issues
http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/loopholes_in_the_clean_water_act#.VUOQxNrBzGc
Couldn't agree more. Water systems are like the Circulatory system of Earth. I wonder how we might use microbes to better clean bodies of water in Massachusetts?
ReplyDeleteI think we should spread awareness about this, because if we can give it enough publicity and we write letters to the congress, all of the loopholes in the law can be tightened. The article said that It was the Clean Water Act that was being weakened so that it was possible for these things to even happen. If the Clean Water Act was really pushed and strengthened then we could something about this, maybe for good. Thank you for posting about this, it's an enormous problem and it demands our attention!
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