The Clean Water Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1972 to reduce levels of toxic substances in the nation's water supply and to prevent high levels of new contamination.

By Linda Runbeck and Don Parmeter The federal government would be granted authority, for the first time ever, over every backyard pond, wetland, ditch, culvert, and pipe – literally all wet ...

It’s a major potential pivot for the half-century-old Clean Water Act, a law prized by environmentalists and grassroots ...