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A 10 page discussion of the multitude of impacts that threaten California water. In most cases these impacts result from a combination of overdevelopment and inadequate regulation. This paper addresses those impacts both from a groundwater perspective and a surface water perspective. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: AM2_PPenvCAwater.rtf
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Abstract Californias water is subject to a diversity of threats.
These include domestic and industrial discharges as well as agricultural and stormwater discharges. In most cases these impacts result from a combination of overdevelopment and inadequate regulation.
These impacts threaten not just Californias surface waters but also her groundwaters. With the implementation of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in 1972 and the revisions which have
occurred since, water pollution is more controlled today than it has been at any other point in our history. Never-the-less, many of Californias water resources suffer from adverse impacts
of one form or another. Research has substantiated that impacts to groundwater, in particular, have the potential to ultimately impact ecologically sensitive surface waters. These impacts are both
point and non-point and thus present a complexity of considerations that must be considered in terms of future regulation. Nonpoint sources of water
pollution in California have a diversity of origins, some of these origins are obvious but others are more insidious. Nonpoint pollution occurs during rainfall and snowmelts as well as
from atmospheric deposits. Nonpoint sources can include everything from stormwater runoff from our every-increasing impervious surfaces, to septic tank leachate, to pollutant sources more often associated with air pollution
such as chloroflurocarbons from aerosol cans and sulfuric acid from industrial and urban discharges. Groundwater can be either directly or indirectly influenced by each and it, in turn, can
impact other water resources. Most of the problems we are facing in California relate to over development. Developmental activities not only destroy
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