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Education:
Let's start with the
basics.
Clean water belongs to YOU!
Not to industries, municipalities, animal factories, or
agribusiness.... YOU! There is no right to discharge into
rivers, lakes, and streams. The fundamental legal and common law
prohibitions against polluting our water were re-stated in a
series of landmark legislative actions in 1972 referred to as
the Clean Water Act. It is just as illegal for an animal
factory to allow manure runoff to reach the nearest stream, as
it is for an industry to flush toxic waste down the drain, or a
municipality to inadequately treat the town's domestic waste.
As you follow the links of this
page, we hope you will begin to understand some of the
challenges facing Iowans as we struggle to protect and restore
our rivers, lakes and streams, and that you will learn about
ways you can help!
Animal
Factories in Iowa... Polluting Our Air and Our Water
Iowa's
Failure to Implement and Enforce the Clean Water Act for
Livestock Operations... Threatening Our Future
About
the Clean Water Act...
Holding
Polluters Accountable... Iowa's Failure to Enact and Enforce the
Clean Water Act
Keeping
Track of the Polluters in your Neighborhood.... Researching
Discharge Permits
Manure
Spills and Fish Kills
Protecting
Aquatic Life in Our Rivers and Streams.... Is 17% the Best We
Can Do?
Iowa
Water Quality Standards.... Fact or Fiction?
Other
Groups in Iowa Fighting for Clean Water
Fishing
in the Dark: Mercury in Iowa's Waters
Ten
Steps You Can Take to Help
Sierra Club Joins Others in Letter to EPA
In April 2004, the Sierra Club, Iowa
Chapter joined the Midwest Environmental Justice Advocates , Iowa
Environmental Council and Hawkeye Fly Fishing Association in sending a
letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requesting
intervention with Iowa's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) water
quality policies.
Read the letter...
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