The lakes supply drinking water and are used for recreation.
The Environmental Protection Agency regulates the community water systems that supply drinking water to most Americans.
By 2016 they will have to supply drinking water at a price that covers costs.
The munitions-laden lakes, including Lake Thun, she added, supply drinking water to about 700,000 people.
The Yellow River, the so-called birthplace of Chinese civilization, is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water.
The bill, which reconciles measures passed by the two chambers, would also improve food safety and protect water systems that supply drinking water to most Americans.
Ms. Cooney pointed out how the show also reflects the many other benefits that come when the hills that supply drinking water are preserved.
Panic quickly followed in Wuxi, a nearby city that depended on the lake to supply drinking water for its 2.3 million residents.
Hundreds of litres of diesel oil have entered a borehole next to the depot, which leads directly to an underground aquifer used to supply drinking water.
