Water Quality Standards

Mentorship received a few years back:
A 2 time General manager of the Year at the #3 busiest restaurant in Orlando held a meeting with his Mgmt. team, I was a member and was present.
He asked for the current Assistant General Manager to leave the table and go into the kitchen and return with a cooking pan that meets our standards.
A short dispute arose on his return with a clean new pan; so the General Manger went to the kitchen and returned with a filthy, blackened from carbon, rusty Pan and exclaimed:

'No, this is our current standard for cookware, simply because we allow it to exist.'

We fixed the cookware issue immediately and also terminated the bottom 12 personnel on the Staff, mixed from different departments.
We raised our Standards by 40% quickly and consequentially increased our volume.

Reason for the short story:
Water quality standards should not be judged at their best, nor should they be judged vs. other bodies of water from other locations.If we (Florida) have 272 known bodies of water classified as Impaired, and that possibly over 1000 may exist, then Our Current Water Quality Standard is “Impaired.”