Clean Water Regulation in Indian Country
<p>America is slowly awakening to the dire state of tribal water and sewer systems. Access to drinking water and sanitation services are severely limited on many reservations, and where such systems exist, many are in poor shape.</p>
<p>A couple years ago the first systematic <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12187" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">study of Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and Clean Water Act (CWA)</a> implementation for tribal facilities yielded alarming results: tribal systems violated the SDWA 57% more and the CWA 23% more than similar non-tribal facilities. The disparities extended to enforcement, too: formal SDWA enforcement was 12% lower and CWA inspections 44% less frequent for tribal facilities. Evidence of systemic environmental injustice is seldom so glaring.</p>
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