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Drinking Water Protection And Agricultural Exceptionalism, Margot J. Pollans
Drinking Water Protection And Agricultural Exceptionalism, Margot J. Pollans
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Providing safe drinking water is a basic responsibility of government. In the United States, local water utilities shoulder much of this burden, but federal drinking water law sets these utilities up to fail. The primary problem arises in the context of nonpoint source pollution, where federal drinking water law favors end-of-line clean up by water utilities over pollution prevention by farmers and other nonpoint source polluters. This system is both inefficient and unfair.
Although the Safe Drinking Water Act requires local utilities to provide safe water, it gives them few tools to engage in water pollution prevention and instead emphasizes …