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To celebrate Clean Water Action's 50th anniversary, we’re sharing our history and journey with the people who have joined us along the way as we worked to protect clean water through #CleanWater50 stories.

Roger Smith joined Clean Water Action's Connecticut team in 2003, shortly after our big win of the Sooty Six Campaign to shut down dirty power plants in the state. He played a pivotal role to further advocate for clean, renewable energy policy at the local level, leading the Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge that helped municipal leaders and residents in fourteen towns with energy

It was a dark, cold January day, shortly after Michigan officials had finally admitted that the people of Flint had been exposed to poisoned water running through their taps. We drove from Lansing to St Michael’s Church in Flint for an organizing meeting. Local activists, people from the non-profit community, and even experts who had run door-to-door canvasses in response to Hurricane Sandy, were all there to do something about the water crisis that is still being ignored by our state government.

It is hard for me to write about what happened in Flint. The most important voices of this tragedy