3 Reasons Water Quality Regulations Fail

• Local Politics directly impact local compliance
  • e.g.: Texas Rio Bravo Water Treatment Plant that included local official doctoring water quality testing results
• Multi layer regulation- local government, state government, federal government
  • ​Fines take away public funding to correct the compliance issues
• It takes a long time before the EPA acts or admits it should have acted

The Atlantic | City Lab| Why It’s So Disturbingly Common for Water Regulation to Fail