Over the last 35 years, the Clean Water Act has helped make significant strides to clean up Pennsylvania's rivers, lakes and streams. But today, many of our most majestic waterways—from the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, to the Susquehanna, Ohio and Allegheny—still suffer from industrial pollution and run-off contamination from overdevelopment.
Yet instead of continuing to improve our clean water laws, the Bush administration has implemented policies that eliminate basic Clean Water Act protections for many of our most pristine waterways—in Pennsylvania and nationwide. This has already led to more pollution going into the small streams and nearby wetlands that nourish our state's great rivers.
We need Pennsylvania's elected officials in Washington, D.C., to act now and ensure that all of our rivers and streams are protected for the present and for future generations.
