The Hill News

In all of the debate on Capitol Hill about cutting budgets, you wouldn't expect water to get a great deal of attention. But it should.

The Continuing Resolution set to emerge from the House this week makes drastic reductions in support for critical functions of the Environmental Protection Agency - the federal entity charged with protecting water supplies for hundreds of millions of Americans. But slashing the EPA's budget, without shifting legal and financial responsibility to polluters, will leave America's fisheries, drinking water supplies, and coastal areas vulnerable. No one else is guarding the door to the henhouse - quite literally, it turns out, when it comes to water pollution.

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