Clean water in national parks isn’t protected by accident — it’s defended by policy and by confronting the pressures outside park boundaries.
Ed Stierli of the National Parks Conservation Association says that safeguarding these waters means not only upholding strong laws like the Clean Water Act, but also tackling the upstream stressors that degrade headwater streams: agricultural runoff, industrial development, energy extraction, and unchecked growth along the East Coast.
Looking beyond the parks themselves is essential to protecting the wildlife, visitors, and waterways that depend on these systems within them.
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This episode is from a conversation at the Reservoir Center in Washington, D.C.
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