Environmental Law
Safe drinking water as well as sanitation are vital for distinguished and healthy life. However, one out of ten individuals in America, still lacks contact safe water which deprives them their basic right. The persistence of water issues has mainly been influenced by the development of manufacturing companies which in turn affects health. In addition, climatic change and demographics increase are most potent to impact more individuals in the near future is proper mechanisms are not put in place. SDWA is an American federal law that guards public drinking water supply nationally (EPA, 2017). Under the law, EPA is involved in setting standards for superiority of drinking water and operates with its partners in applying different financial and technical initiatives to ensure safety (EPA, 2017).
The mechanisms that my client can employ in order to influence the regulatory procedure is to ensure that EPA makes a regulatory determination. When a determination is being made by EPA preliminary regulatory is made that offers an opportunity to acquire comments from the public. The client should therefore, demonstrate the adverse effect that the proposal and the chemical has on individual’s health. In addition, the chemical should have the chance of getting in contact with the water systems. These criteria should be made in order for the regulatory to be administered in order to determine the effects of the chemicals on water safety and individual’s health. For the chemical given that it has adverse reproductive effects the MCLG is grounded on the orientation dose (EPA, 2017). The reference dose refers to the projected chemical amount that an individual can be exposed to everyday that is not expected to result in any adverse health impact over the lifespan (EPA, 2017).
References
EPA. (2017). Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/sdwa
EPA. (2017). How EPA Regulates Drinking Water Contaminants. Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/dwregdev/how-epa-regulates-drinking-water-contaminants
