Water

Clean water is the foundation for healthy & prosperous communities. While our nation has made significant progress since the 1970’s in cleaning up many of our rivers, bays and other vital water resources, we still face significant water quality and quantity challenges. Drinking water sources are threatened by pollution and overconsumption, and some of these threats are made worse by climate change.

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Minnesota

Groundwater is the Drinking Water Source for 75% of Minnesotans—Take Action Now to Protect It!

75% of Minnesotans get their drinking water from a groundwater source.

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Recent Actions

Pennsylvania

Tell Pittsburgh City Council to Invest in Green Infrastructure today!

Tell your City Councilor to make an investment into our communities by helping to fund the final design of this amazing green infrastructure project!

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Michigan

Ingham County: Tell your County Board of Commissioners to continue standing up for our lakes and rivers!

Ingham County has been a leader in environmental stewardship for a long time.

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Texas

Join the #NoDrippingSewage campaign to protect our Hill Country water!

Sign the petition today showing your support a ban on dumping treated sewage into creeks above the Edwards Aquifer in favor of safer alternatives.

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Maryland

More Trees, Please!

Over the past eight years, Maryland has lost more than 14,000 acres of forest to development.  The Forest Conservation Act could reverse that.

 

More trees, please!

Press Releases

April 20, 2018
Clean Water Action Applauds Governor Murphy on Signing of Environmental Justice (EJ) Executive Order

"The time for talking is past," said Kim Gaddy, Environmental Justice Organizer for Clean Water Action. "This environmental justice  (EJ) executive order starts the process and the governor cannot move fast enough to adopt mandatory EJ measures across multiple agencies. We need to significantly reduce the cumulatively be pollution burdens and health impacts on New Jersey is most vulnerable-low income communities and communities of color."

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April 18, 2018
Senate protects water by rejecting the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act

"This is a big win for our water. Invasive species like Zebra Mussels jeopardize the health of our waters, damage our infrastructure, and impact businesses across the nation -- costing our economy billions of dollars annually."

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April 18, 2018
First Lady Tammy Murphy to Keynote Clean Water Action's 32nd Annual Conference

Edison, NJ--First Lady Tammy Murphy will keynote Clean Water Action's

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Minnesota State Capitol-Drew Geraets
Mid-Session Defense Update
April 24, 2018

We are halfway through the Minnesota 2018 legislative session and it’s been made clear that some of our lawmakers are not willing to put our environment and public health first. They are placing policies that ignore science and weaken protections for our land, air, and water before people.

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Coal Ash at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant / photo: flickr.com/appvoices (CC BY 2.0)
Scott Pruitt’s Latest Attack on Environmental Justice
April 24, 2018

Help us make sure that Scott Pruitt doesn’t increase the burden that communities of color face. Help us stop the rollback on coal ash protections.

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First Lady Tammy Murphy to Keynote Clean Water Action's 32nd Annual Conference
April 20, 2018

We're getting so excited for our 32nd Annual Conference, Rise Up, Persist & Win, happening next weekend, Saturday, April 28th, 2018, from 9 am to 5 at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, NJ. Don't miss our Keynote Speaker First Lady Tammy Murphy, who also serves as Secretary and charter member of The Climate Reality Action Fund, an organization founded by former Vice-President Al Gore.

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