Smart, Clean, Green: 21st Century Water Infrastructure

Campaign for Sustainable Water Infrastructure

A starting definition of sustainable infrastructure includes systems that use, treat, store, and reuse water efficiently at a small scale and that blend designs into restorative water hydrologies. These would include rain gardens and green roofs, water-efficient appliances and landscaping, decentralized wastewater systems, methods to recover energy and nutrients from wastewater, and others that conserve resources and restore ecosystems and healthy communities. This work is funded in part by the Massachusetts Environmental Trust. 

Campaign to Prevent Contamination

Clean Water Action's Campaign to Prevent Contamination is working to implement the Protection Phase of the Source Water Assessment and Protection Program (SWAP), by getting funding allocated for eight full-time Massachusetts DEP staff positions to provide technical support to drinking water suppliers throughout Massachusetts in the FY2010 budget.

Boston Lead-Free Drinking Water Initiative

Clean Water Action has joined forces with the Boston Lead Action Collaborative and Conservation Law Foundation to form this initiative that seeks to prevent exposure to lead via drinking water for Boston residents, particularly infants and young children.

Campaign to Protect Local Water

To prevent extraction of public water supplies for the bottling industry, and curtail the exponentially growing bottled water industry, Clean Water is expanding to include the Campaign to Protect Local Water. We will build public awareness and support for stronger legal and regulatory frameworks to protect water supplies in Massachusetts from excessive extraction.

Members of the Campaign to Protect Drinking Water include:

• Acton Citizens for Environmental Safety
• Beverly Safe Drinking Water Alliance
• Brookline Conservation Land Trust
• Cedar Swamp Conservation Trust
• Citizens for a Livable Beverly
• Connecticut River Watershed Council
• Conservation Law Foundation
• Environmental Task Force of the Hampshire Interfaith Council
• Essex County Forum- Smart Growth for Livable Communities
• First Herring Brook Watershed Initiative
• Fore River Watershed Association
• GreenCAPE
• Harwich Conservation Trust
• HealthLink
• Hilltown Anti-Herbicide Coalition
• Hoosic River Watershed Association
• Housatonic River Initiative
• Lawrence Environmental Action Group
• Lead Action Collaborative
• Leominster Land Trust, Inc.
• League of Women Voters - Andover
• League of Women Voters - Needham, Water Study Committee
• Massachusetts Association of Health Boards
• Massachusetts Audubon Society
• Massachusetts Sierra Club
• MassachusettsSSPIRG
• Mattapoisett Land Trust
• Natural Resources Trust of Plainville
• Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary
• Parker River Clean Water Association
• Rutland Land Conservancy
• Salem Alliance for the Environment
• Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment
• Sippican Lands Trust
• Sisters of Charity of Montreal
• Sutton Conservation Commission
• Taunton River Watershed Association
• Toxics Action Center
• Watchdogs for an Environmentally Safe Town
• Wenham Lake Watershed Association
• Worcester Regional Environmental Council