Headline : Environmental advocates use events to spread awareness about the potential loss of wetlands and the need to protect surface water

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Protecting water systems was on his mind as Rick Savage stepped to the podium at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center on N.C. State’s campus Friday to make a point about wetlands.

“One thing to realize […] is that what has been happening has not changed the definition of wetland—a wetland is still a wetland,” Savage said. “What is changing is the definition of a jurisdictional wetland; the Clean Water Act protects jurisdictional wetlands.”

Savage, executive director of Carolina Wetlands, an organization that advocates for protecting wetlands in North and South Carolina, spoke in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that changed the definition of what constituted the “Waters of the United States.”

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