Controlling Nonpoint Source Water Pollution: Is Help on the Way (From the Courts or EPA)?
Nearly three decades after enactment of the modern Clean Water Act (CWA), efforts to address the largest remaining source of water pollution—runoff and other types of aquatic ecosystem impairment from diffuse activities—remain elusive. Every two years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirms in its biennial National Water Quality Inventory that nonpoint source water pollution, or "polluted runoff," causes the majority of water body impairment throughout the country.