1974.Nixon was impeached. The Watergate trial began. The first extraterrestrial message was sent from Earth into space. John Lennon’s solo “Whatever Gets You Through the Night,” hit No. 1., and Lucy, the most complete early human skeleton was discovered.And in 1974, Congress passed one of our country’s most important pieces of water legislature: the Safe Drinking Water Act.That was only 41 years ago, a mere drop in the bucket of history. Some of you probably still own clothes from 1974. (Whether they fit or not is a completely different question we won’t dive into here.)But back to drinking water.Until Dec. 16,
