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Publications by Clean Water Action

Clean Water Currents | Spring 2024

In This Issue: We Are Closer to an Important Victory in Getting Lead Out of Drinking Water | Update From Jeff Carter, President & CEO | State Infrastructure Programs - New Report Finds Opportunities to Improve Transparency and Accessibility | News Updates | Protecting Water After the Devastating Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court Decision | State and Regional News

Letter to EPA: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper Rule Improvements

Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund emphasize the need to fully replace all lead service lines, service line inventories, and lowering the Action Level for lead in water sampling.

Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund 2022 Annual Report

2022 marked major milestones: the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act and our own 50th anniversary.

Letter to Congress: 150+ Organizations in Support of Low Income Household Water Assistance Program Funding

On behalf of the more than 150 undersigned water associations, environmental, low-income, and other public interest advocates, and labor unions, we urge Congress to provide FY24 funding for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. Without action to continue this critical program, hundreds of thousands of low-income households could lose access to essential water service.

Clean Water Currents | Fall 2023

In This Issue: Congress Should Protect People, Not Polluters! | Devastating Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court Decision Puts All Water At Risk | Lead In Drinking Water - Putting Lead Service Lines Behind Us | PFAS Chemicals - Taking the Burden Off Communities and Our Health | EPA Proposes to Expand Regulation of Toxic Coal Ash | State and Regional News

Comments on EPA's Revised Pollution Standards for Power Plants, May 2023

Coal plants have gotten a free pass to dump millions of pounds of toxic metals, nutrients, chlorides, bromide, and other pollutants into our nation’s waters for over 40 years. t is long past time these power plants treat all of their wastewater using modern and effective pollution control technologies, as required by the Clean Water Act. It is long past time these power plants treat all of their wastewater using modern and effective pollution control technologies, as required by the Clean Water Act.