December 12, 2011
Mark Dayton
Office of the Govenor
130 State Capitol
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155
Vote YES on the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (AKA Clean Water Act)
This bill has an extremely large impact on the waters of our nation. As a concerned citizen, I feel it is right to protect our water so that it will always be safe to drink, swim in, and use in many things. This bill will help our water stay clean and usable.
This water act influences many people. If we have dirty water, it is not safe to drink, to swim in, or to fish in (if it does not already kill the fish living in those polluted waters). We would lose our fishing recreation as well as becoming very sick form drinking contaminated water. Big factories, especially along Cancer Ally, pollute the water of poeple living around that area, and those people then become very sick. Keeping our water clean is extremely important to our health, our recreation, and our environment.
People against this bill might say that corporations will have to spend a lot of money to make sure that their run-off is clean, or that the cost of cleaning our waters is too high, but how can politicians buy that??? The cost of cleaning our waters and run-off is nowhere near as high as the health costs, not to mention how much more expensive it would be to clean all the water 100 years from now!
Your support on the continuation of this bill is so very appreciated. I hope that you continue to support this bill in any way you can, and encourage others to do so as well. If you have any questions, please contact me at 888-888-8888, or email me at student@mail.com.
Thank you for your time,
Student
Showing posts with label Advocacy Project. Show all posts
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Advocacy Project: Fact Sheet
Facts
on Water Quality in the United States
Presented
by Hannah Koepke
Who is affected by water quality?
Everyone. The Clean
Water Act promotes this idea of healthy water quality levels in the United
States. If this bill had not been enacted, we would be drinking contaminated
water, not be able to safely swim in some of our waters, and even have to be
careful of the fish we catch in our waters, especially near areas of factory
run off.
What is the economics of this
issue?
Companies have to pay
more to have clean and regulated run-off, but we cannot afford to spend
trillions on cleaning up our water sources. Our drinking water is at stake.
Most shocking, bottled water does not have to meet the same regulations as
public water, and privatized water cleaning companies do not even have to same
high quality standards as public city water does.
What can you do?
You can keep up the
Clean Water Act and keep our lands water sources clean and usable for
generations to come. For more information, please visit the Environmental
Protection Agencies informational page at http://www.epa.gov/gateway/learn/water.html.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Advocacy Project: Issue Overview
The issue I picked for my advocacy project is clean water. The current legislation that adresses this is The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (AKA The Clean Water Act).
Who is affected the most by this bill? The Amerian public is affected the most. If this bill were not enacted, we would see a considerable decrease in the quality of our Nation's water. Our corporations have the most to lose in this bill since they have to spend a considerable amount of money cleaning their water run-off, but we the people of the world have the most to gain by having clean water sources. Consequences of not having clean wateraffect everyone from individuals to society as a whole.
The eocnomic costs of the issue are companies paying more money to clean their waste products, but the gain is that we are not paying a loss of clean water or thousands of dollars to restore our clean water. The social impact of this is the public fighting to get clean water for drinking, swimming, etc., as well as providing clean water to other countries. By companies watching their pollutants, and by individuals watching what they dump in waters, we socially benefit by having not polluting be a corporate norm.
Barriers addressing this issue are the fiscal costs of keeping our water clean, but these barriers can be overcome by creating simple ways to keep water pollutants down. Resources for this issue are individuals working for the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]. They can be tapped at anytime by going to http://www.epa.gov/epahome/comments.htm and seeing all the resources the EPA has and also to contact the EPA.
There is a long history to the issue of water quality. In the Great Lakes community is has been long as there is a vast quantity of water that we the citizens want protected, which is why in 1978 by the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement came about. The result was the forced upkeep of our Great Lakes to stay clean.
I believe there are many people to support this cause for clean water, especially those living on large bodies of water. Opposers would be companies who want to save money by dumping their waste in water bodies. To create a common ground, companies who practice safe waste removal ways will be subject to tested, and if they pass the standards we will impose, then they get a monetary refund from the government.
I want everyone to be on board in keeping this bill alive.
Who is affected the most by this bill? The Amerian public is affected the most. If this bill were not enacted, we would see a considerable decrease in the quality of our Nation's water. Our corporations have the most to lose in this bill since they have to spend a considerable amount of money cleaning their water run-off, but we the people of the world have the most to gain by having clean water sources. Consequences of not having clean wateraffect everyone from individuals to society as a whole.
The eocnomic costs of the issue are companies paying more money to clean their waste products, but the gain is that we are not paying a loss of clean water or thousands of dollars to restore our clean water. The social impact of this is the public fighting to get clean water for drinking, swimming, etc., as well as providing clean water to other countries. By companies watching their pollutants, and by individuals watching what they dump in waters, we socially benefit by having not polluting be a corporate norm.
Barriers addressing this issue are the fiscal costs of keeping our water clean, but these barriers can be overcome by creating simple ways to keep water pollutants down. Resources for this issue are individuals working for the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]. They can be tapped at anytime by going to http://www.epa.gov/epahome/comments.htm and seeing all the resources the EPA has and also to contact the EPA.
There is a long history to the issue of water quality. In the Great Lakes community is has been long as there is a vast quantity of water that we the citizens want protected, which is why in 1978 by the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement came about. The result was the forced upkeep of our Great Lakes to stay clean.
I believe there are many people to support this cause for clean water, especially those living on large bodies of water. Opposers would be companies who want to save money by dumping their waste in water bodies. To create a common ground, companies who practice safe waste removal ways will be subject to tested, and if they pass the standards we will impose, then they get a monetary refund from the government.
I want everyone to be on board in keeping this bill alive.
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