; and (E) worsening drought conditions and frequency have highlighted the importance of source water protection, reclamation, and recycling to ensure communities, farmers, and small businesses have sufficient quantities and quality of water resources for current and future needs. (9) Congress has recently recognized the importance of comprehensive approaches to protect critical waterbodies, such as the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Lakes, Lake Pontchartrain, the Long Island Sound, the Puget Sound, and the San Francisco Bay, and national estuaries, which depend on protection of the entire watersheds of these waterbodies to reduce levels of pollution and prevent further degradation of rivers, streams, and wetlands that feed and maintain these critical waterbodies. (10) Despite the overwhelming, bipartisan support for clean water and the overwhelming scientific evidence on the interconnectivity of rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, and other waters of the United States, following calls by corporate polluters to weaken the Clean Water Act, the Trump administration finalized its Dirty Water Rule, also known as the Navigable Waters Protection Rule , to radically narrow decades-old regulations established by President Ronald Reagan. (11) According to Environmental Protection Agency documents, the Trump administration’s Dirty Water Rule would— (A) eliminate Clean Water Act protections on between 18 to 71 percent of the Nation’s stream and river miles that were protected under the Reagan-era regulations; (B) eliminate Federal protections on over half of the Nation’s wetlands in the continental United States that were protected under the Reagan-era regulations