The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the major federal law that guarantees the quality of drinking water for Americans. Under SDWA, EPA sets values for the quality of drinking water and administers the states, districts, and water providers who put into practice those values. SDWA empowers the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) to position national health base values for drinking water in order to guard in opposition to both naturally happening and man made pollutants that may be found in drinking water. The EPA, the states, and the various water systems then work together in order to make sure that these values are attained (Cross and LeRoy, 2008). Millions of Americans obtain good quality drinking water every day from their public water systems, which are either publicly or privately owned. However, drinking water safety cannot be overlooked. SDWA pertains to each public water system in the United States. There are many threats to drinking water. These include unacceptably dumped chemicals, animal wastes, pesticides, human wastes, wastes introduced deep underground and natural materials can all pollute drinking water. Similarly, drinking water that is not appropriately treated or disinfected, or which moves by way of an inappropriately...
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