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Clean Water Waves | In The News, September 2023
Our work to protect clean water across the country often makes the news. Clean Water Waves highlights recent articles featuring our staff speaking on their areas of activism and expertise.
Source Water Protection Week & Why It Matters - #ProtecttheSource
In 2014, I spoke and wrote about drinking water source protection in the context of the 40th anniversary of the first passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act. During this Source Water Protection Week, the case I made then for ramping up protection efforts seems even more clear.
Climate and Environmental Organizations Commend House Leadership for Re-Introducing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
We cannot effectively tackle the critical issues our nation faces — like combating the climate crisis, advancing environmental justice, and protecting our air, lands, waters, biodiversity, wildlife, and oceans — without fixing the broken system that caters to corporate polluters and disenfranchises too many voters.
Knowledge Is Power: Fighting for Public Power in Ohio
The Public Power Project travelled across the Midwest where communities are maintaining their own energy grids, learning the sometimes complicated world of power generation, or fighting for local control over the flow of resources and capital in their communities.
Background: Federal Regulation of Lead in Drinking Water
For our introduction to lead and drinking water, click here.
The Federal Government regulates lead in drinking water, primarily through the Lead and Copper Rule.
Lead and Copper Rule
Adopted as part of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in 1991 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR)'s purpose is to protect public health by minimizing lead and copper exposure at the tap.
The LCR requires water systems to monitor the drinking water they provide and control for corrosion. Because lead can get into drinking water at various points throughout the system, as