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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California

How the drought is impacting Californian's access to water

The impacts of climate change are intensifying across the United States.

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Recent Actions

Minnesota

Ask Your Minnesota Lawmakers to Reduce PFAS & Lead Exposure

Though Clean Water Action has been encouraged by bipartisan efforts to pass coronavirus relief and a law banning certain trichloroethylene (TCE) uses, there are many other public health priorities that were left unfinished

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Pennsylvania

Sign the Petition! Wilkinsburg-Penn Joint Water Authority Must Protect Residents

Tell WPJWA to conduct outreach and adopt policies that put residents first and better protects our water.

Sign our petition and tell WPJWA to conduct outreach and adopt policies that put residents first and better protects our water.
Virginia

Urge the Virginia General Assembly to Take Action on PFAS in Drinking Water

Clean Water Action and our allies have led efforts during this year’s General Assembly session to address toxic per and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances by pressing for legislation to study the occurrence of these chemicals in Virginia’s public drinking water, and to address sources of human exposure.

Urge the Virginia General Assembly to Take Action on PFAS in Drinking Water
Pennsylvania

Close Pennsylvania’s Leachate Loophole

Take Action! Email your state legislators today and urge them to support passage of bills that close the Leachate Loophole.

Take Action! Email your state legislators today and urge them to support passage of bills that close the Leachate Loophole.

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Water Blog Posts

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It’s Fall! Here are Some Tips for a Healthy Fall Lawn and Gardens While Protecting Our Water!
September 21, 2021

It’s Fall!  Here are Some Tips for Healthy Fall Yard and Gardens While Protecting Our Water!

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Talking Lead Service Lines in Malden, Massachusetts
September 7, 2021

Lead exposure is a problem that America has been facing for decades. The EPA estimates that lead in drinking water can account for 20% of a person's exposure to lead (Lead and Drinking Water). Currently, there are lead service lines in up to ten million homes across the country. Replacing them comes at a high cost.

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Biden's EPA must act quickly to undo the damage Trump caused
September 2, 2021

I’ve been working on the question of what water should be protected by the Clean Water Act for 19 years. Polluters and their allies in Congress have been trying to remove some water bodies from the Act’s jurisdiction for just as long, so you would think I ran out of outrage a long time ago. But no.

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