THIRSTY?Amanda GildersleeveMille NagelPaige Gates

What is it?

• SDWA: The first federal law mandating drinking water regulations for all public water systems

• Must follow standards for water quality•Focuses on Protection Programs for community water systems whether

they are above or below ground

History• The idea of clean water

standards were brought forth in 1914

• Came about in 1976 when a federal survey discovered that poor water quality was dangerous to public health

• 1996 amendment states that systems must annually report to consumers and complete a compliance report

Pollution

Urbanization and Water Quality

Sewage

Pollution

What’s in it?

• 16 inorganic compounds like arsenic and selenium

• 54 organic compounds• 7 types of bacterial or viral

microorganisms; • 7 standards for disinfectants

like chlorine or disinfectant products like bromate;

• 16 inorganic compounds; • 54 carbon-based compounds,

and • 4 radionuclides.

What does it do?

• Water systems are required to frequently test the water supply being delivered

• If the water exceeds the maximum contaminate level the holder will be notified and must discontinue use of the system until levels meet the standards

BEFORE

AFTER

Contaminated Water Hotspots

What Can Water do to Me?•There are over 28 know diseases caused by water contamination.•Including:

AnaemiaArsenicosisBotulismCholeraGiardiaHepatitis A and EHookwormLead PoisoningMalariaPolioScabiesDysentryTyphoid

Why is it important?• SDWA is important to water management

because;– It highlights connection between water and land resources– Demonstrates how land use effects water quality– Effects drinking water treatment costs, therefore SDWA

goes hand-in-hand with the Clean Water Act

If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by improving environmental quality.

~WILLIAM C. CLARK, speech, Racine, Wisconsin, April 1988

KEEP WATER CLEAN!

Works Cited

• http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/sdwa.html

• http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/sdwa/pdfs/

fs30annsdwaweb.pdf

• http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/ndwc/pdf/OT/OT wpp.pdf

• http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Re-St/Safe-

Drinking-Water-Act.html