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Preface: Why a Book on the Clean Water Act? | |
A Clean Water Retrospective | p. 1 |
The Need for Clean Water | p. 5 |
The Impetus for the Clean Water Act | p. 5 |
The Vision of the Clean Water Act | p. 6 |
The Need to Meet the 1972 Goals | p. 10 |
The State of Our Waters Twenty Years Later | p. 13 |
Traditional Measures of Pollution and Water Quality | p. 14 |
Human Health Still Threatened | p. 29 |
Aquatic Species and Ecosystems in Jeopardy | p. 58 |
The Economics of Clean Water | p. 87 |
Economic Values of Water Resources | p. 88 |
Economic Losses Due to Water Resource Degradation | p. 96 |
Paying for Water Resource Protection | p. 108 |
Assessing Clean Water Act Programs | p. 117 |
The Need for Improved Standards, Monitoring, and Communication | p. 119 |
Water Quality Standards | p. 119 |
Inadequate Monitoring and Public Information | p. 129 |
The Elusive Zero Discharge Goal | p. 137 |
Regulatory Structure for Industry and Sewage Treatment Plants | p. 137 |
National Treatment Standards Limited and Outdated | p. 138 |
Permit Program Deficiencies | p. 150 |
Enforcement Deficiencies | p. 166 |
Virtually Nonexistent Poison Runoff Controls | p. 171 |
A Primer on Poison Runoff | p. 172 |
Runoff Mandates Abandoned or Poorly Implemented | p. 183 |
Increased Emphasis on Runoff Programs in 1987 | p. 185 |
The New Coastal Runoff Program - Promising but Limited in Scope | p. 191 |
Protection for Aquatic Resources and Ecosystems | p. 199 |
State Antidegradation Programs | p. 200 |
State Water Quality Certification | p. 203 |
Efforts to Protect Waters from Dredging and Filling | p. 205 |
Programs to Protect Lakes, Estuaries, Ocean Waters, and Rivers | p. 216 |
A National Agenda for Clean Water | p. 227 |
Honing Our Informational Tools | p. 228 |
Closing the Gaps for Point Sources | p. 232 |
Preventing Polluted Runoff | p. 241 |
Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems and Watersheds | p. 242 |
Funding Programs Adequately and Equitably | p. 254 |
Notes | p. 259 |
Acronyms | p. 307 |
Index | p. 311 |
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