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Excerpt from Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1993: Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session on S. 1547, a Bill to Reauthorize and Amend Title XIV of the Public Health Service Act I think when we look back over the last 12 months, when we look at what has happened in Milwaukee with contamination from the parasite, Cryptosporidium, and we look at what has happened int the mid-west with the floods, when people didn't have the drinking water that they've grown accustomed to when flood waters over-ran the drinking water plants, these events remind us that the simple act of turning on the faucet represents a profound trust between citizens and their public officials and the water sup p Iers. And I would argue that it is our responsibility here to make sure that it's maintained. We can't have our society the way we have it if there is a breakdown in that trust that this is going to be safe. And, with that goal in mind, we've proposed many things that are exactly in line with your proposed bill - a critical issue of deal ing with Federal unfunded mandates of providing a revolving fund, a fee structure to help States maintain and strengthen their drink ing water programs - and I'll say a little bit more about that in a bit - pollution prevention programs which will reduce cost over the long haul. We have to get out of the mentality that the only way we're going to solve our problems is to keep treating it. We have to go back to where we're getting it from to make sure that we're doing all we can to protect those sources of water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.