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  • Coordinating Efforts to Secure American Public Water Supplies ( March 2002 )

    Recent media reports claim that Taliban forces in Afghanistan, employing a warfare tactic used in ancient Rome, placed dead animals in community wells to pollute the water supplies of recalcitrant villages. Closer to home and months before the September 11 attacks, the FBI alerted water utilities across the nation that it had received a signed threat, later determined to be a hoax, that an identified terrorist group intended to disrupt water operations in twenty-eight U.S. cities.
  • Groundwater Report ( January 2000 )

    EPA issued its report to Congress on the status of groundwater quality in the United States and the effectiveness o.
  • U.S. Tightens Drinking Water Standards ( April 1999 )

    On December 3, 1998, President Clinton announced new public health standards for drinking water, the first such sta.
  • Major California Legislation Enacted in 1997 Relating to Water Quality ( January 1998 )

    Methyl tertiary-butyl ether, or MTBE, is the most commonly used oxygenate to comply with California's Cleaner Burning Gasoline regulations.

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