Statutory rape

Abstract

Underground injection is a solution that has become a problem. The statute that permits it, the Safe Drinking Water Act, is out of synch with the rest of the nation's anti-pollution program, which seeks to reduce pollution and protect the environment. Even so, EPA could use the authorities in the act, particularly the prohibition against endangerment, to regulate the practice tightly, so that it is only used where no other option exists, if it is used at all. Instead the agency has chosen to use the authority the SDWA gives it to allow underground injection to expand the practice at the behest of states like Florida which see the practice as critical to continued development. Unfortunately, this approach translates into the reality that today's society is using the drinking water supplies of future generations as its toilet.