DES MOINES, Iowa ( IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH ) - Environmental and community groups from Iowa sent a letter Thursday to the state’s congressional delegation urging them to oppose a House bill that would “gut critical clean water protections.”

The groups in the letter say Iowa is “on the frontlines of a drinking water emergency” and the changes the bill plans to make to the Clean Water Act would exacerbate the problems in Iowa.

The Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today, or PERMIT, Act seeks to “limit the scope “of the Clean Water Act, which has been in place since 1972.

The bill would redefine navigable waters, the waters which the act applies, to exclude: waste treatment systems, waters that flow only after precipitation, prior converted cropland, groundwater and

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