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Originally from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, Jenny Tompkins (she/her) now lives and works in Meadville, Pennsylvania, on Erie and Haudenosaunee lands. Jenny joined River Network [...]

03/26/2025 @ 3:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT -

The Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act further amended the SDWA to strengthen and enhance public notification requirements related to exceedances of national standards [...]

SDWA Amendment created the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act

SDWA Amendments required EPA to use the best available, peer-reviewed science and consider risk and cost assessments when creating drinking water standards. The amendment also established the [...]

SDWA Amendments required EPA to apply National Primary Drinking Water Regulations to both community water systems and non-transient non-community water systems.

The SDWA was signed into law by President Gerald Ford, four years after EPA was established.

12/05/2024 @ 2:00 pm EST - 3:30 pm EST -