Abstract
One of the important tasks facing the new Administration and the new Congress is a rewrite and update of the Clean Water Act. As in many other areas, there is no lack of advice on how this task should be accomplished. Now another piece of advice has surfaced, this time from an extraordinary coalition of more than 80 public, private, and nonprofit organizations—some of whom are more usually found on opposite sides of the table—that has been working for four years on an integrated national policy for U.S. water quality and surface-and groundwater resource protection. Developed by Water Quality 2000—which counts the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA), the Environmental Defense Fund, Du Pont, Procter & Gamble, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers among its member organizations—the policy rests on three broad strategies: protecting water resources by preventing pollution, empowering all segments of society to contribute to water resource ...
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