Since the U Congres last considered...

Since the U Congres last considered changes to the Safe Drinking Water Act in May 1994 there have been a dozen cases of water contamination, including a deadly Cryptosporidium outbreak in Las Vegas, Nev Half a million population have reported sicknesses as a be derived of drinking contaminated tap water since then, and the Atlanta-based Center for Disease rule estimates that 25 times that number may actually have become ill.

if it be not that in October 1995, the Senate Environment Committee unanimously passed a bill that amends the act.

That bill earned the support of the National League of Cities and the National Association of Counties.

"The sum of two units most important revisions . . are those-dealing with the proces at which new contaminants are rareed and the process by which regulatory limits forward the presence of contaminants are set" says Jeff Wennberg, mayor of Rutland, Vermont Wennberg, who is authorized to speak