Streams that supply drinking water in danger following 2023 Supreme Court decision that stripped wetlands protections
A Supreme Court decision that stripped protections from America’s wetlands will have reverberating impacts on rivers that supply drinking water all over the U.S., according to a new report. The rivers of New Mexico are among the waterways that will be affected most by the May 2023 Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. EPA, which rolled back decades of federal safeguards under the Clean Water Act for about half of the nation’s wetlands and up to four million miles of streams that supply drinking water for up to four million people, according to the report, titled “America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2024.” … [The report, issued by the advocacy group American Rivers, also cited the Trinity River in California and the Tijuana River in California and Mexico as among the ten most endangered rivers.]
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