5.05 Quiz Clean Water Legislation
Question: Water Framework Directive 2000
Answer: manages surface water and ground water
Sets forth guidelines to be achieved by 2015 for reducing pollution and improving ecosystem health.
River basins are used as an primary administrative unit;
Question: Windmills in the Netherlands provide__
Answer: energy to retrieve fresh water and assist in water drainage, since about 20 percent of the area lies below sea level.
Question: 2008 Law of the People’s Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution
Answer: This law imposes pollution-incident fines of up to 50 percent of the yearly income of the polluting enterprise
Question: class- action suits
Answer: a suit that is brought by a group or groups of citizens against a single entity such as a corporation
Question: Clean Water Act of 1972
Answer: The act required permits for the discharge of pollutants at places where materials are directly dumped into a body of water
Question: point sources
Answer: a single, definable place where pollutants enter an ecosystem
Question: non-point sources
Answer: a diffuse area where pollutants enter an ecosystem
Question: Ducks Unlimited
Answer: an organization that combines the interests of hunting and wetland protection.
Question: What political unit passed the Water Framework Directive
Answer: European Union
Question: According to the U.S. Supreme Court, why were many wetlands removed from the protection of the Clean Water Act?
Answer: They existed solely within single states.