Water Pollution In Wisconsin's Lakes And Rivers

Water pollution in Wisconsin’s lakes and rivers is an important issue to recognize. My names is Megan Snyder, I attend Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School as an eighth grader. This letter is one way our social studies class can have practice at being an active citizen within our community. In this letter, I’m suggesting a new, small idea to help decrease the amounts of pollution in Wisconsin’s lakes and rivers.

Obviously, pollution has increased based on the tasks, we as humans do. Focusing in on the bodies of water in Wisconsin, the polluted runoffs have become common. From an article titled Wisconsin’s Lakes at Risk, it states, “Runoff pollution contributes to the fact that 380,000 acres of Wisconsin’s lakes and reservoirs and more than 3,300 miles of streams and rivers are polluted and unable to support all the activities for which we rely on water: swimming, fishing, and supporting wildlife” (https://frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/wisconsins-lakes-risk). The polluted runoff and the amounts of the bodies of water that are effected, causes many water sources to be unavailable for human and wildlife use. Ultimately, the bodies of

Early on, starting in 1899, Congress placed control after control, and placed acts to prevent and control water pollution. The majority of controls, acts, and laws were meant to enhance help, or use of human activities and to improve in proper care of the water. According to the article Water Pollution Regulations, it informs, “The 1965 Act amendments began to give each individual state the authority to develop and enforce water quality standards for interstate waters. If they didn’t develop or enforce standards, the Federal government would step in and establish standards for them” (https://www.wwoa.org/history/water-pollution-regulations). The government was very strict on why and how they placed the laws, to ensure the amount of pollution wouldn’t get worse in the