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What is Earth Day?
In 1970, 20 million Americans participated in THIS day of action to demand clean air and water.
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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
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What is Flint?
This Michigan city suffered catastrophic lead contamination of its water over the past two years
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What is 40 percent?
This percentage of watersheds in the Western U.S. are contaminated by mining pollution.
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What is a sewage overflow?
When a wastewater treatment plant is overwhelmed by stormwater, THIS yucky thing can happen.
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What is 1985?
The Clean Water Act set a goal of having all our waterways clean by THIS year.
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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
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What is high levels of chlorination to treat bacterial pollution.
Treated drinking water in Flint is very corrosive for this reason.
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What is acid mine drainage?
This is the type of pollution that flowed from the Gold King mine in Colorado.
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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.
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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.
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What is Tyson?
This company reported dumping more pounds of toxic pollution into our waterways than Dow, or Exxon or Koch Industries.
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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
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What is 280?
This is the estimated number of pipeline spills each year that cause “significant” damage to lives or property.
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What is one million?
An acre of wetlands can hold up to THIS many gallons of stormwater.
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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.
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What is Toledo?
Name a city where pollution from factory farms has contaminated drinking water sources.
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What is 11,000?
This many community water systems in the US still use lead pipes.
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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.
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What are limiting sprawl, or encouraging dense development?
These residential development strategies can reduce runoff pollution.
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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.
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What are . . . buffer zones? Cover crops? Rotational pasture? Reducing manure application to cropland?
Name one practice that can reduce pollution from agriculture.
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What is Lansing, MI or Madison, WI?
Even before the crisis in Flint, Michigan, THIS Midwestern city replaced its lead service lines.
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What is spills or leaks or underground transport of toxic water.
This is one way that fracking can create water pollution.
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What is a combined sewer system?
This kind of sewer system can overflow and threaten waterways with sewage pollution.
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