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Take Back Washington's Waters: The Failure of the Clean Water Act in Washington and What We Can Do About It	6/10/2005
Thirty years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, many Washington waterways are still polluted. Indeed, government reports show that 48 percent of the state’s waterways are impaired for aquatic uses, meaning that they are not healthy habitat for fish or other creatures. The federal Clean Water Act—as well as Washington’s numerous water quality laws—contains statutory authority to deal with these persistent problems. Yet, in many cases, the laws have not been aggressively implemented or enforced.
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Troubled Waters: An analysis of 2005 Clean Water Act compliance	10/11/2007
In passing the Clean Water Act, Congress set the goals of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985 and making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983. Although we have made significant progress in improving water quality since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we are far from realizing the Act’s original vision.
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