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| 5/26/2005 | |
| More than 30 years after passage of the Clean Water Act and despite the fact that over 7 million people become sick each year from sewage dumping, over 850 billion gallons of untreated or partially treated sewage are being released into U.S. rivers, lakes and streams every year. | |
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| 5/23/2007 | |
| More than thirty years after the Cuyahoga River was engulfed in flames and the Clean Water Act was passed to clean up America’s waterways, Ohio’s lakes, rivers, and streams continue to be plagued by pollution. | |
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| 4/20/2006 | |
| The discharge of untreated human sewage to waterways poses severe potential threats to human health. Sewage commonly contains bacteria, parasites and viruses that can make people ill, as well as a variety of toxic chemicals. | |
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| 11/30/2005 | |
| More than thirty years after the Cuyahoga River was engulfed in flames and the Clean Water Act was passed to clean up America’s waterways, Ohio’s lakes, rivers, and streams continue to be plagued by pollution. | |
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| 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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