The 1970s provided several events that shook the nation throughout the decade. It began when four student protesters were killed in 1970 at Kent State University. It continued with the terrorist attack at the Olympic Games in 1972, the Watergate scandal in 1974, and then 52 American diplomats and citizens being taken hostage in 1979 in Tehran, Iran. And in between there was of course -disco. Scary, I know. For groundwater, though? It was a boom decade and Water Well Journal was there covering every highlight. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was created on December 2, 1970, and with it came new focuses on safely providing clean water to households and protecting the resource for future generations. The advent of the EPA spawned a flurry of water activity. The Water Pollution Control Act was first in 1970, the Clean Water Act came in 1972, the Safe Drinking Water Act followed in 1974, and the Toxic Substances Control Act came on board in 1977.
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