M5.2 The public health importance of safe drinking-water

The Clean Water Act focuses on improving the quality of the nation's waters. It sets standards and provides financial assistance to address the main causes of pollution leading to overall poor water quality. The Clean Water Act holds industries accountable to meet standards and set specific water criteria. To this day, the act still continues to bring clean water.
The important of drinking safe water has to do with safe levels of chemicals and nitrates being safe to drink. Access to having safe-drinking water is important to civilizations because we cannot thrive without clean water. Clean water is important to many states, fishing and wildlife service. For fisherman, if the water is contaminated, the food source in the area is too. That affects our food chain greatly if the sources of our food and water are contaminated and thus seeping into our plants and vegetation. We want to maintain the natural water as much as possible while harvesting the resources given to us in an adequate amount of use, without being able to replenish.