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Putting Drinking Water First - the Reports
Polls show that people consider drinking water the most important public health and environmental issue, but environmental policies don’t always reflect this.
Most water pollution is caused by human activities. Growing food, producing energy for electricity and transportation, making products and building communities — all are activities that impact water.
You might think that these and other activities would be planned and manage to limit their risks to water. But that is not often the case. Instead, contamination and destruction of water resources are allowed to happen. Communities are left
Fighting for Safer Chemicals: Minnesota's Healthy Legacy Coalition
Clean Water Action co-founded the Minnesota public health coalition, Healthy Legacy, in response to the growing body of scientific evidence linking rising rates of disease and exposure to toxic chemicals in our consumer products and environment.
What's in your water?
The products we use in our homes, schools and offices are putting the health of our water at risk. Chemicals that are found in our cleaners, body products, furniture and other household products are also being discovered in Minnesota’s water.
Green Justice Coalition
Clean Water Action has served since 2008 on the Steering Committee of the Green Justice Coalition (GJC), a partnership between labor and grassroots justice groups across Massachusetts, convened by our good friends at Community Labor United.
Mind the Store
Toxic chemicals are in a wide array of consumer products: food, packaging, clothing, sporting goods, toys, electronics, furniture, personal care products, and cleaners, among many others. As consumers, we have power. By coming together with others across the country, we can use our power to make sure that stores sell safer products.