; and (B) wetlands, including wetlands that lack surface water connections, are physically, chemically, and biologically connected to, and affect the integrity of, other protected water resources. (8) Restoring and maintaining the Nation’s protected water resources, including intrastate waters, is necessary to prevent significant harm to interstate commerce and sustain a robust system of interstate commerce in the future. (9) This Act restores Clean Water Act protections to the Nation’s protected water resources to ensure their chemical, physical, and biological integrity. (10) The pollution or other degradation of the Nation’s protected water resources, individually and in the aggregate, has a substantial relation to and effect on interstate commerce. (11) Protected water resources, including streams and wetlands, provide protection from flooding, and draining or filling wetlands and channelizing or filling streams can cause or exacerbate flooding, placing a significant burden on interstate commerce. (12) Millions of individuals in the United States depend on the Nation’s protected water resources, including streams and wetlands, to filter water and recharge surface and subsurface drinking water supplies, protect human health, and create economic opportunity. (13) Source water protection areas containing small, intermittent, and ephemeral streams replenish public drinking water supplies serving more than 110 million individuals in the United States. (14) (A) Millions of individuals in the United States enjoy recreational activities that depend on protected water resources, including streams and wetlands, such as waterfowl hunting, bird watching, fishing, paddling, and photography. (B) Those activities and associated travel generate hundreds of billions of dollars of income each year for the travel, tourism, recreation, and sporting sectors of the economy of the United States. (15) Regionally specific protected water resources, such as prairie potholes in the upper Midwestern prairies, pocosins in the Atlantic