The Clean Water Act, officially called the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, was enacted into law on this day, October 18, in 1972, after Congress overruled a veto from President Nixon who feared that it was too expensive.
The 1889 Johnstown Flood was the greatest single-day loss of civilian life in the United States before 9/11. It also helped rewrite the country’s liability law.
New York State’s Adirondack Park is the largest state park outside of Alaska, consisting of six million acres of protected land in Upstate New York. Since 1892, these lands have been protected as “forever wild” by the New York State Constitution.
2023 is on track to become the hottest year on record. Let’s take a look at two of our newest databases, Labor and Employment: The American Worker and Water Rights & Resources, to show the effects that climate change have on labor and water rights.
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court recently ruled against the Navajo Nation in the tribe’s request for the federal government to assess and meet their needs for water.
We recently announced our newest database, Water Rights & Resources, and since then this specialized database has been making a splash. FIU Librarian Gricel Dominguez broke down the content, usability, and pricing for this database in a review.
Water Rights and Resources, a brand-new collection of nearly 3,000 titles and more than 600,000 pages, is a highly editorialized database designed for understanding state and federal laws governing water.
