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hello there this is jerry white jr your spokane river keeper and today i wanted to talk to you about a really important part of keeping our rivers clean which is called the national pollution discharge elimination system it's basically a permit to pollute your river a lot of people don't understand but actually uh the under the clean water act many uses are sort of guaranteed and one of those is the use to pollute your river so we're not actually guaranteed a pristine river under the clean water act the way the pollution works is that it's uh it's discharged by permit and that name of that permit is called the npdes permit to permit to pollute these permits are extremely important under the clean water act because under the clean water act we envisioned as a society that we would in fact eliminate pollution one day from our water waves every permit to pollute is designed to get more and more tight as we go on five-year cycles it regulates the amount of pollution that is being discharge