The Clean Water Act Factory Farms Drinking Water Resource Extraction Clean Water Communities
100
What is Earth Day?
In 1970, 20 million Americans participated in THIS day of action to demand clean air and water.
100
What is a dead zone? Or what is an algae bloom?
When too much nitrogen or phosphorous flow into our waters, THIS condition can result, where there is so little oxygen in the water that few fish or aquatic life can survive
100
What is Flint?
This Michigan city suffered catastrophic lead contamination of its water over the past two years
100
What is 40 percent?
This percentage of watersheds in the Western U.S. are contaminated by mining pollution.
100
What is a sewage overflow?
When a wastewater treatment plant is overwhelmed by stormwater, THIS yucky thing can happen.
200
What is 1985?
The Clean Water Act set a goal of having all our waterways clean by THIS year.
200
What is guacamole?
The algal blooms in Florida’s rivers last summer were so green and thick that people compared them to THIS classic Mexican dish
200
What is high levels of chlorination to treat bacterial pollution.
Treated drinking water in Flint is very corrosive for this reason.
200
What is acid mine drainage?
This is the type of pollution that flowed from the Gold King mine in Colorado.
200
What are impervious surfaces?
While in nature stormwater percolates down into the soil, THESE types of surfaces funnel stormwater into nearby waterways or our sewage systems.
300
What is go to court to enforce the law?
If polluters violate their permits, and government fails to act, the Clean Water Act allows ordinary citizens to do THIS.
300
What is Tyson?
This company reported dumping more pounds of toxic pollution into our waterways than Dow, or Exxon or Koch Industries.
300
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
Intended to keep our drinking water safe, rules under this federal law set limits on lead and other contaminants
300
What is 280?
This is the estimated number of pipeline spills each year that cause “significant” damage to lives or property.
300
What is one million?
An acre of wetlands can hold up to THIS many gallons of stormwater.
400
What are "designated uses"?
The Clean Water Act requires states to set standards for water quality, such as suitable for fishing, swimming or drinking, known as THIS.
400
What is Toledo?
Name a city where pollution from factory farms has contaminated drinking water sources.
400
What is 11,000?
This many community water systems in the US still use lead pipes.
400
What is 2,000?
This many miles of streams and headwaters that provide drinking water for millions of Americans have been permanently buried and destroyed as the result of mountain top removal.
400
What are limiting sprawl, or encouraging dense development?
These residential development strategies can reduce runoff pollution.
500
What is TMDL? or What is anti-degradation? or What is the Clean Water State Revolving Fund?
Besides permits, THIS is one of the CWA’s many tools to protect our waterways from pollution.
500
What are . . . buffer zones? Cover crops? Rotational pasture? Reducing manure application to cropland?
Name one practice that can reduce pollution from agriculture.
500
What is Lansing, MI or Madison, WI?
Even before the crisis in Flint, Michigan, THIS Midwestern city replaced its lead service lines.
500
What is spills or leaks or underground transport of toxic water.
This is one way that fracking can create water pollution.
500
What is a combined sewer system?
This kind of sewer system can overflow and threaten waterways with sewage pollution.






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