Why the American West is fighting for water protections
Not all rivers and streams are protected under the Trump administration’s new definition of “water.”
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For most of its nearly 50-year history, the Clean Water Act protected all US rivers and streams from pollution. But the Trump administration redefined the types of waterways that get federal protection, which affects some states in the arid West more than any other part of the country. The reason why has to do with the differences between certain types of rivers and streams.
For EarthJustice’s watershed maps:
earthjustice.org/features/maps-watersheds-dirty-water-rule
For more reading on the impact of the Dirty Water Rule:
www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/climate/trump-environment-water.html
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CORRECTION: In the intro, we incorrectly identified the locations of two Washington, DC-area rivers. At 00:12 and 00:15, that section of the Anacostia River runs through Washington, DC, not Maryland. And at 00:22 we incorrectly identified the Occoquan River as running through Washington, DC, when in fact it runs through Northern Virginia.
CORRECTION: In the intro, we incorrectly identified the locations of two Washington, DC-area rivers. At 00:12 and 00:15, that particular section of the Anacostia River runs through Washington, DC, not Maryland. And at 00:22 we incorrectly identified the Occoquan River as running through Washington, DC, when in fact it runs through Northern Virginia.
I’m mad that the two mistakes were in my particular area (DC,MD,VA)
Do a video about the U.S. capital riots please
And the Santa Fe River shown at 2:09 is really the Galisteo Creek. You can't even map the only two rivers you are talking about in this piece. Come on folks!
Also, the map at 1:44 for the Rio Fernando is incorrect. Rio Fernando is further south. It's a clever graphic, but the Red River is not the Rio Fernando.
Do an episode on the storming of the capital
Privatized profits, socialized losses
new Mexico and the southwest need the water, there is a couple of big river in that area.
In a country where it's much more important to have the right to scream slurs and own guns than the right to have potable drinking water. What a world.
Conservative Logic: lol water comes from bottles, who cares what’s in the rivers? It’s like they have a memory wipe every other decade. The reason why these protections even exist is for US. Yall forget about that time we almost made our own national bird extinct, or that time a company buried tons of literally carcinogenic chemicals UNDER A TOWN, or how about that time a literal river CAUGHT ON FIRE because of pollutants in the water? That kind of stuff happens when companies and corporations are not regulated by the American people.
i know santa fe these river does not look likeit
Was that a train track on that bridge at 2:13?!
This country is in competition with India for the worst water system.
People are dying from stupidity in America.
All the water we have today is the same water the dinosaurs had 200 million years ago and is the same water our great-great-great grandchildren will have in the coming centuries. Treat it well.
A great video
Why do we need to make laws to keep companies from doing this? Can't they see it's wrong to poison the water we all drink? How do they sleep at night?
They are short sighted in the spirit of profit.
"If you dump pollutants in one part of a system it will eventually make its way to the other parts" had to be the worst moment of her year....her face read to me like "I hate humanity, we actually still need to be told this as adults"
OK, Marxists, and weird speech accented youth. Let's see how Biden tackles this. Why are these things always voiced by dweebs who can't fix a toaster?
These are rivers..!
Go watch dark water
Nice one sided hit piece vox.
Good. Environmental protection is more important than some shareholders making a few bucks.
Its either economy or environment
@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh Sorry? I haven't said anything that's to be debunked, I don't have any opinion or stance here. I want to learn about how this is supposedly a hit piece.
@Bea Ha! You think anyone will listen to or care about the requests of a commenter who has been so thoroughly debunked?
@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh My comment asking for citations has been debunked? I didn't make any opinion or statements of fact. Does that mean you're gonna provide sources or not for what you're claiming? Also who is this team you speak of?
Our village, Agua Fria, literally means cold water in Spanish. The early explorers named it this way because it was the first cold mountain stream they had run into (Onate 1598). This is the Santa Fe River that they encountered. Now excluded from the WOTUS Rule. Yet, two Native American Tribes also called this "cold water place" dating back to maybe at early as 3,500 BCE. President Biden we need our protections back!
REALLY!!!
the fact that keeping waterways clean is political and open for debate really lowers my faith in humanity.
So he gave the power back to the states....like a good president should. So what's the problem? People scream dictator but he actually gave more power to the states....guess people want mode federal control
WATER IS LIFE
"Licking, Ohio"
What even was the reason for Trump do that? Literally no reason the waters shouldn't be protected other that it's cheaper for businesses to get rid of their trash...
Money
When trump dies, no one come to his funeral ok
Truly evil
Biden needs to hear about this and reverse the policy immediately!
trump is great is a joke (:
"When donald trumpet will make America great again" Me: I don't... Think so
Great video
Sure, some industries and companies might save a couple of pennies from dumping their waste into rivers but it will take the Government millions of Taxpayer Money to treat that waste. Trump calls himself a businessman, but his actions don't show that.
cant the state have regulations itself? cant new mexico itself set protective laws in its borders? Why is it a federal issue?
I can’t get my head around that there are people that can drum up the energy for seeing this kind of policy through. Getting things done normally means hard work. I can only imagine what drag it must be to make a new piece of legislation happen, whatever it’s about. At least for me, hard work requires motivation; harmony between the goal of the efforts and one’s core values, is typically mandatory for anything meaningful to happen. So I totally get how legislators can find the drive to push the clean water act through. But who’s work-spirit is lifted at the thought of the opposite?
The main narration mic...is it just me or is it slightly off a bit?
Omg, I cant believe that these arrogant boomers and older generation can pollute our entire earth, and it's up to us as gen z to solve them. We sure are gonna have a lot of work to do-
It is known that they will not solve it for their interests and what to do? Get water from other countries. Like guns, they're sent to other countries
We never know the worth of 💦 'till the well is dry. ~ Thomas Fuller ~
The USA during the Trumo administration is in such a bad condition. This is awful.
Ireland and Turkmenistan:
Trump that Water 🗣️
This is what capitalism and profit do. Business people won't care how much they're gonna exploit their workers and how much they're gonna pollute the environment. Profit is what they care about.
❤👍💕💕💕💞💖🤝👌
Fun fact: during the cold war, the government dropped a nuke down a mine shaft in Arizona. Unfortunately, the mine was connected to underground springs, and the radioactive elements ruined the water supply for one county.
Hey Vox what happened you guys are not uploading as often, please make a video about the insurection on Washington DC
@Something Went wrong That explains a lot
Dude they are on vacation All they're recent videos was made before Christmas Let them rest
Like videos likw this
Hey man can you do a vid about how trump was impeached and why did the UK left the EU. I hope you will notice this and make a vid tyvm
@Something Went wrong oh ok that is why I notice different voices in this channel but anyways I love their vids and I will continue to support them
Not just man this is a Large company
I just read "Dry" by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman and it rings painfully true
Ppl that voted from trump : it’s just water
I am sorry, remind me again why USA is a first world country? They don’t even have clean waters
PLEASE DO A VID ON THE CAPITOL RIOT IM BEGGING YOU
Same here
fr ive been waiting for them to upload about it
GUNNERSBURY WAS HERE
Waiting for the dc video
pls make how canon Pachelbel became famous for wedding entrance songs
And trump wonders why he lost, people of the US want clean water, whether for drinking or for the wildlife, clean water is a human right, not a way to make money... (Speaking as a UK citizen, where our water rules are a lot better and a lot more sane, we can even harvest rainwater from our roofs too without being fined or arrested for theft of something a state or government cannot actually own)
My friend keeps saying “cheer up man it could be worse, you could be stuck underground in a hole full of water.” I know he means well.
Great video
up
Such a backward policy.
The gov of Taos wants to put irradiated water back into the ground water. I used to live there. Great place. Highly recommend living there :)
hahaha the SHADE in the choice of clips of trump and obama. Very fitting! Love it.
you guys seriously make my favorite types of content. I have watched "explained" (all versions) on netflix like 4 times!!
Because its desert, thats the simple answer, maybe
its almost like america is not the best country in the world
Seek God’s will daily. 1 Corinthians 15👑
I'm a Trump supporter but I don't agree with him on this just because you're republican doesn't mean you should sign terrible laws
This is an amazing video! Kinda random: but I love the sound design too!
Most of time in California is drought. The raining season is very short. Since California is overall lack of water, we must conserve water.
Meanwhile China is just being the home plumber, they get problems, they solve 'em
Tell that to the millions of trump supporters who don’t believe what you are saying is true
Pls do MH 370 investigation
Y’all not going to a video on the capital tho?
@Ryan Hernandez they are on vacation
They're probably almost done with making it, based on their upload schedule.
Do
As bad as it sounds, what is stopping these people from buying a water filter and going about their life?
WE NEED A VIDEO ESSAY ABOUT THE ONLINE CENSORSHIP OF TRUMP
The only thing I am wondering is why Vox hasn’t posted a video on the capitol events.
Thank goodness The dems have the senate.
Can't states copy Obama's plan and make the federal protection state protection?
Whenever I see VOX I know they’re omitting some context to their “reporting”. Yes I do agree that water is life the EPA in 2015 did what was deemed right. Now after looking into WHY Trump rescinded or wanted a revision, I found the Supreme Court case Rapanos vs US which made it clear that not everything is black and white when it comes to waterways and definitions DO matter. Again, I do agree water should be preserved and safeguarded against pollution.
@Ausar additionally, let’s say you live in a condo. And the government one day decides your condo if violating the law. Will you evacuate or would fight back to deem it livable? I’d hope you’d right back! Everyone in this country deserves the right to freedom. And as always, a government big enough to give you everything is capable of taking everything away.
@Ausar and he tried to fill his wet land. Again... HIS wetland.
@Ausar well put it this way, as am american owning land, do you want the government dictating what you can do with your land or do you feel you have bested interest in HOW you know what you wish to do with your land. As far as I’m concerned whether it be an indigenous person or yourself, you know what is best for your land as long as it’s without the legal bounds of the law. Now you stating it’s illegal is your opinion. Hence why the Supreme Court had to intervene to set a precedence. I think it’s not always black and white and it should be taken on a case by case basis.
I read the Rapanos vs US court case, and I fail to see how some guy illegally filling a wetland to build a mall “makes it clear” that this is not black and white
I'm waiting for their next video about the invasion of the Capitol
Can someone please tell America they need water to live.
Revert back?
Only in the US does it make sense for a first world country to be unable to give all its citizens water. I suppose that's why they still haven't ratified the human right to food.
Is any of this surprising when considering human nature and capitalism??
We have to respect nature
Wow. I thought that Trump just wrecked havoc on democracy and outside political relationships, but nature as well? Was there anything this orange person didn't touch and ruin? As all water is connected, then the US is going to see the worsening of public health a in a few years or so as...you might pollute the unconnected stream but that pollution will show up in some ones drinking water sooner or later.
TRUMP SUPPORTERS STORMED THE US CAPITOL. NOW THERE MIGHT BE A POSSIBILITY THAT THEY WILL DO IT AGAIN. this time, they might gonna assassinate Joe Biden (and possibly Kamala Harris), during their inauguration. I mean to say that the storming of the US capitol could mean that they proved to us that they might do anything to go do the extremes to save Trump's presidency, even if it means killing one of their own.
Oh course what Vox doesn't mention is under Obama's rules a puddle in the street is a "protected water way"
It's the problem everywhere not only in us
in river
in indonesia is much worse only one fish species
all over the globe water is used to dump everything.
You're telling me that NONE of these worried or harmed people voted for Trump?
Please do a Darkroom Apisode about the Northwest Passage and the John Franklin Expidition
life is water
So I guess anything one president do, another president can undo. One president does good, another president undo that good. Regular people suffer, just sad. 😔
Talk about why trump was banned by Twitter
New Mexico is west!?🤔
Can you please do a video about Ethiopia's civil war?
“Water is life” Trump: Pretty sure it isn’t
Just another reason why Trump has been the absolute worst president in all of US history
Not the worse, if you’ve only been alive to see 2-3 presidents don’t talk. Also there were some bad presidents early on. Like Andrew Jackson
Wouldn't say worst. Take Johnson for example
Gravity and a lot of current from Colorado