“There’s no cop on the beat enforcing our drinking water laws”
Nearly a quarter of the U.S. population -- approximately 77 million people – is drinking water from systems reporting violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2015, according to a report issued recently by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
The offenses ranged from arsenic to nitrate contamination, and included often-serious failures to test or report contamination levels.