Clean Water Action

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3 In the News
4 Contact Information

[edit] Mission

Clean Water Action's more than 1.2 million members, volunteers and seasoned professional staff have built one of the nation's largest, most effective environmental organizations. Clean Water Action's grassroots muscle has been critical in shaping and strengthening laws such as the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Superfund for toxics cleanup.

Clean Water Action provides recognized leadership on critically important environmental, health, ecosystem protection and community quality of life concerns. Recent examples include: arsenic in drinking water and "pressure treated" lumber; sewage pollution/dumping; mercury, power plant and incinerator pollution and safer renewable energy alternatives; wetlands, watershed and drinking water source protection; environmental funding and enforcement.

Clean Water Action is a national organization of diverse people and groups working together for:

Clean Water – Assuring supplies of clean, safe and affordable water for all Americans, now and for the future.

Protecting Health – Preventing health-threatening pollution at its source.

Creating Jobs – Building an economy based on environmentally safe jobs and businesses.

Making Democracy Work – Empowering people to take charge of our environmental future.

Clean Water Action:

Organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and

Campaigns to solve environmental and community problems, and to elect progressive and pro-environment candidates at every level.

Wisconsin Focus

The Great Lakes are a natural wonder of the world, and an invaluable economic and recreational resource for all Minnesotans. Unfortunately, the Lakes are suffering. Raw sewage contaminates beaches, invasive species threaten food webs, and toxic mercury renders our fish unsafe to eat. Every day we wait to make a smart investment in cleaning up the lakes the more it will cost.

The Great Lakes Collaboration Implementation Act of 2006 offers us manageable solutions to these problems. If passed and funded, it will restore and protect the Lakes for our children and grandchildren.