EPA's groundwater protection strategy
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States)
What the EPA, working jointly with the states, hopes to accomplish over the next ten years in order to integrate and coordinate all the groundwater programs within the agency is discussed. Although many other EPA programs such as Superfund, Clean Air Act, and Wetlands Management are often highlighted in the media, EPA does not down rate the importance of groundwater protection. Indeed as a resource, it is one of the most important commodities. Groundwater is the basis for life in this country. Recharge rates are no where near what the withdrawal rates are in many areas of the country. Twenty-five percent of all the potable water comes from groundwater. Groundwater supplies 50 percent of the needs for all the US population. If you include strictly rural areas, it supplies 95 percent of all the use. Something that most people who are not groundwater hydrologists would not think about is the fact that groundwater is a recharge mechanism that provides over 30 percent of the flow in streams and major rivers.
- OSTI ID:
- 6066545
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9206355-; CODEN: IOCBAV
- Journal Information:
- Interstate Oil Compact Commission Committee Bulletin; (United States), Vol. 6:1; Conference: 1992 midyear meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, Wichita, KS (United States), 21-24 Jun 1992; ISSN 0020-9732
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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