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Viewpoint – A Mayor Looks at the Safe Drinking Water Act
Author(s) -
Hudnut William H.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1983.tb05130.x
Subject(s) - legislation , order (exchange) , work (physics) , business , product (mathematics) , service (business) , quality (philosophy) , safe drinking water act , water industry , environmental economics , law , risk analysis (engineering) , water quality , water supply , engineering , economics , finance , marketing , environmental engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , ecology , biology
In this month's “Viewpoint,” the mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana questions the validity of the Safe Drinking Water Act as implemented. He states that such legislation can be highly disruptive to cities and systems already hard pressed to deliver a product or service, because in order to meet requirements under the law a great deal of money has to be spent. The goal of water suppliers is to provide high‐quality drinking water at a reasonable cost. In order for this goal to be realized, the USEPA must make the system work in a more rational and economically sane manner than it has since the act was made law.