A lot of this goes back go the Clean Water Act from the early 70s, and how it’s precedent enabled more local laws and bodies to focus on water quality (like the

A lot of this goes back go the Clean Water Act from the early 70s, and how it’s precedent enabled more local laws and bodies to focus on water quality (like the Delaware River Basin Commission near me protecting the Delaware River watershed). These laws and orgs can be overly bureaucratic, and need constant monitoring to make sure they don’t halt all progress in a given area, but it is a vast improvement to earlier times when the government cares not a whit about water quality. We have the same story here on the Delaware - a river you would not want to dip a single toe into 20 years ago is now beautiful, serves as drinking water to millions, and supports all sorts of hunting, fishing and tourism industries.