President Bush will include $21 million in his 2003 budget for a new Environmental Protection Agency initiative to protect, preserve and restore waterways across the country.
A U.S. Geological Survey scientist and his colleagues from the USGS and the University of Massachusetts have discovered a potential analog for life on other planets.
EPA recently strengthened drinking water requirements to protect an additional 18 million Americans served by 11,000 small drinking water systems from crystosporidium and other disease causing microorganisms.