Action Alert: Save Our Waters from Sewage
League of Conservation Voters
Two phrases you never want to see in the same sentence: drinking water and “sewage blending.” What's worse, that's the Bush Administration's new plan for your water supply! Read on, if you dare.
Hard to believe, but true: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to relax restrictions on dumping sewage into our waterways. But with your help – and the help of everyone you know – we can stop them.
“Sewage
blending” is a threat to our health and our communities. The EPA has
proposed a new Clean Water Act policy, which would allow more
“blending,” or discharging, of inadequately treated sewage into our
waterways.
This
one is so outrageous, we've got to get EVERYONE to take action. We're a
new special interest group: People who drink water!
The new
policy would allow sewage with no biological treatment into our lakes,
rivers, streams and coastal waters. This kind of treatment is intended
to kill pathogens and remove toxic chemicals. But exposure to the
bacteria and viruses in such polluted waterways can be
life-threatening.
We must prevent millions of Americans from getting sick because of exposure to these polluted waters. Contact your members of Congress today to let them know you oppose the idea of sewage 'blending.”
Thanks for taking action,
Deb Callahan
President
League of Conservation Voters
P.S. The House is expected to vote on this next week. Your action right now can help protect us all. Go to www.lcv.org to access links to action.
Blog For Iowa 
NPR ran a story on All Things Considered about sewage issues that was about enough to “gag a maggot” (as the saying goes).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4602953
The worst part of this story was the rower showing the reporter that the “piece of white stuff” in the river was actually toilet paper.
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