Just like health safety inspections for food, we rely on water quality monitoring and reporting to ensure that the water we swim, surf and play in is safe. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to cut all federal funding for beach water quality monitoring in 2013, putting over 90 million Americans at risk of getting sick from polluted water across the United States! Here in California, this funding supports vital state and county health agency testing for polluted water at California beaches. Without this funding, many beaches will go untested, leaving the public at risk from getting sick. The livelihoods of many local businesses that benefit from the more than $12 billion spent by beach visitors each year in California are also at risk. With California beaches closed a total of 5,756 days (number of beach closings plus number of days) in 2010, now is not the time to stop beach monitoring. Please ask Senator Feinstein to restore the money for beach water testing in the federal budget.