"Giving individual states the final say on what to do with their water supply is akin to letting your neighbor dump his trash into your kitchen sink.

"In a world like that, it would be up to Pennsylvania to decide what its dirty industries could toss into the Delaware River — which flows right into New Jersey. And if New York let a factory ooze chemicals into the Hudson River, all that muck would lap up on our shores, too."

"This would be the impact of a bill passed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, called the 'Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act.' It basically eliminates federal safeguards on our water, rolling back the Clean Water Act by returning oversight to the states."

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/07/congress_new_dirty_water_act_g.html