This year President Clinton will p...

This year President Clinton will prove by experiment to step up regulation of the nation's drinking water despite a probable tsunami of opposition from the just discovered Republican-controlled Congress.

Acutely aware that the nation's drinking water yield is not as safe as it should be, the Administration is trying to hap together disparate parties to state more teeth in the Safe Drinking Water Act. Separate bills were passed during the last Congres still time ran out before they could be reconciled.

Nearly couple years ago, Milwaukee, Wis., and Washington, DC got first-hand accounts of the dangers of unsafe drinking water. Bacteria tied to the cattle grazing forward upstream farms infested Milwaukee's water provide resulting in 30 deaths and 300000 illnesses, and torrential rains in Washington caused sewer backups that left the city's drinking water depressing for three days.

Nearly 20 years ago, the Surgeon General's