It’s a Week About Water

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) It’s a big week for water. Tomorrow’s hearing on the proposal to close loopholes in Clean Water Act protections is unusual in that it’s a joint House and Senate hearing, meant to signal that the majority party intends to block the Administration’s efforts to protect critical waterbodies. The Administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2016 Federal Budget is important for water too. The President has proposed increased spending on water infrastructure, drinking water quality and innovative water management approaches. The proposed budget also includes dramatic investment in strategies to prevent global warming pollution and to help us deal with the impacts of climate change. Many of those impacts involve water too. When we consider that flooding is the most dangerous weather impact and that coastal wetlands play an enormous role in preventing flooding in those areas, why in the world would we allow these important parts of our water infrastructure to fall outside the protections of the Clean Water Act? Learn more about protecting streams, wetland and waterbodies which prevent flooding and filter out pollution here. Join us this week on social media to speak out for clean water. Learn more here. Our statement on the President’s FY2016 Budget Proposal can be found here.