2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/20/2019 | 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION: LEVERAGING PRINCIPLES OF AQUATIC ECOLOGY INTO THE CLEAN WATER ACT | 250 CF
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION: LEVERAGING PRINCIPLES OF AQUATIC ECOLOGY INTO THE CLEAN WATER ACT
The goal of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) is “to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters.” (33 U.S.C. § 1251) Similarly, aquatic ecology seeks to protect aquatic ecosystems by studying how organisms interact with chemistry, the physical environment, and each other to affect the biological integrity of waters. In theory, the CWA and aquatic ecology are linked. However, in practice, the links are tenuous. In many respects, this disconnect explains why the CWA has not achieved its goal. For example, the CWA largely ignores non-point source pollution; it only has jurisdiction over “navigable waters” (33 U.S.C. § 1362) which can leave ephemeral waters and groundwater unregulated; and CWA water quality standards rely on water quality criteria that often do not “reflect the latest scientific knowledge” (33 U.S.C. § 1314). Moreover, water quality criteria tend to ignore contaminant mixtures, novel and emerging contaminants, multiple stressors, and species interactions, among other things. This talk will discuss present opportunities to incorporate aquatic ecology into the CWA, and how current efforts to modernize water quality criteria derivation can better address the CWA's goal.
- Environmental Regulation
- Multi-stressors
- Policy
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Sam Duggan
(), University of Minnesota, sambduggan@gmail.com;
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