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Why were both the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act passed into law?

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First passed in 1972, the Clean Water Act (CWA) serves to maintain chemical, biological and physical integrity of the navigable waters of the United States. The CWA made it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters, unless a permit was obtained.

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