Great Lakes-Lake Erie
Today we begin a six-part series on the Great Lakes of North America, starting with Lake Erie. Lake Erie's name comes from the Erie tribe, a shortened form of the Iroquoian word erielhonan, which means…
Summary of the Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States. The basis of the CWA was enacted in 1948, and was called the Federal Water…
Cleaning Up Los Angeles’s Shores
Last week, we talked briefly about the Clean Water Act of 1972 and the regulating effect on discharges into America's waterways. Storm water has become a primary source of pollution…