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The Connecticut 2023 legislative session is in full swing and Clean Water Action is working hard on critical legislative proposals. Our priorities include PFAS, climate change, and environmental justice.

Students and young people all over the world are standing up to address many significant problems facing our society—and making a big difference! We’re doing the same by launching a club at our school called “Choate for Clean Water.” As juniors in high-school, we became concerned about clean drinking water through our passion of politics and environmental studies. Our club’s focus is to raise awareness and educate within our community about the importance of clean water and how policies at the state and federal level impact our water. Choate for Clean Water hopes to influence students to

CT Member Survey Results We asked our members in Connecticut what they were concerned about. The results are in and issues like stormwater runoff, plastic pollution and PFAS contamination of drinking water sources around the country, including some private wells in Greenwich were top priorities. Members are also concerned about corporate buy-outs of water companies, water bottling companies getting rights to our water, protecting well water, bacterial contamination from nutrients, agriculture and leaking septic tanks. Members also support that water is part of the public trust and believe that