How about some good news, for a change?

Thanks to Clean Water Action friends and members like you, success on Clean Water Action’s top clean water priorities has never been closer:

• Restoring protection for small streams and wetlands
• Controlling polluted runoff
• Reducing toxic pollution that threatens our drinking water, and more.

We’re on the verge of winning major gains that will finally improve critical protections for our water, especially our drinking water. We’ve got a huge amount of positive momentum going right now. Your generous gift today will help us secure the Clean Water future we are all working toward. Join us by making a donation, right here, right now. Together we can stand up for our water, restore critical protections that have been lost and protect precious drinking water resources. Despite all the exciting progress we’ve made so far this year, we’re still facing some of the toughest opposition we’ve ever seen. Polluters and their allies in Congress are scrambling to maintain the status quo, putting special interests before common-sense protections for our water and health. Pollution and development have placed streams and wetlands – including drinking water sources for nearly one-third of all Americans – at risk today. Clean water gains we’ve taken for granted are starting to unravel. In the past four years alone, we’ve lost more than 360,000 acres of wetlands that can never be replaced and the pace of damage and destruction is accelerating. Not a moment too soon, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made clean water a top priority, taking real and promising action to protect it. Now it’s our job to make sure EPA’s common-sense clean water proposals can succeed. We can’t allow them to be blocked by polluters and their allies in Congress. Clean Water Action is counting on your continued financial support at this critical time. This fall EPA unveiled landmark action to protect water, announcing plans that will clarify once and for all what waters and wetlands should be protected under the Clean Water Act. We’re talking about nearly 20 million acres of wetlands and half the nation’s small streams. Restoring these Clean Water Act protections and what that will mean for protecting our drinking water – this is a really big deal for people who care about our water – people like you, and all of us here at Clean Water Action. Kids Get It

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This summer, we received hundreds of letters and drawings from children across the country about why clean water is important to them. Their painstakingly colored drawings and diagrams showed fish, people and wildlife, and drinking water. With captions such as “Everyone’s happy where the water is clean” “Save the waterways,” and “I like this lake because my Grandma and Grandpa live on it,” made it quite clear what needs to happen. These kids know you can’t protect our water without protecting all of it — from watershed to water tap. When it comes to our water, their priorities are unquestionably the right ones. We must act now to create a clean water future for our children and their grandchildren. This is the best opportunity we’ve had in years to create that future. If you believe this is a future worth fighting for, we need your most generous gift. Opportunities like this one are all too rare. Please don’t delay. Make your donation today. Why care about wetlands?

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Wetlands are the backbone of our natural clean water infrastructure. They filter pollution and buffer communities against storms and flooding. They feed and nurture fish and wildlife, providing habitat and breeding grounds for countless species. They deliver unique value and add billions of dollars and millions of jobs to our economy. And wetlands also absorb and store the rainfall and snowmelt which supply communities everywhere with clean drinking water. Together We Can Win This The way we will win for our water is by continuing to keep the pressure on at every level, building momentum, starting locally in communities — including yours — all across the U.S. The more people taking action and making their voices heard, the stronger the action we can expect from EPA on these critical issues. Polluters’ tactics have become increasingly desperate. Starting earlier this fall, opponents began railing against EPA’s common sense efforts to clarify Clean Water Act protections and keep drinking water sources safe from pollution as an “unprecedented power grab.” Their spokespeople made the rounds of broadcast news and talk shows, trying to justify their ridiculous claims with bogus information about EPA plans to regulate every “mud puddle.” Some of their allies in Congress are echoing these attacks, hoping to thwart EPA’s drinking water protection efforts. Making “Stuff” Up – We won’t let them get away with it, will we? Sometimes, when polluters are feeling the heat – as is finally the case on this one – it seems they resort to “making stuff up.” EPA’s proposals simply clarify and restore protections that have been in place ever since Clean Water Action helped secure the Clean Water Act’s passage in 1972. We have science and common sense on our side in this fight to protect drinking water. But we dare not allow these attacks to go unanswered. EPA must be allowed to do its job. With your help, Clean Water Action can continue to demonstrate the overwhelming support that exists for fixing the Clean Water Act and protecting our water. It’s not very often that we’re able to share so much in the way of good news for our water. Clean Water Action members’ loyal and generous support – support from people like you – has set the stage for new clean water victories that would have seemed unlikely, even a few months ago. Now is the time for bold, decisive action to push these wins across the finish line. We can seize these clean water opportunities and deliver real clean water victories, together — and it all starts with the gift you make today.