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Clean Water America is an advocacy network of individuals and organizations who share the goal of protecting and improving the quality of water in America. We appreciate your interest in clean and healthy water and we want to keep you informed of our efforts to improve America’s water quality.
Did You Know Clean
Water Is At Risk?
Since the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, over $250 billion has been invested in wastewater infrastructure by federal, state, and local governments. This investment has yielded significant benefits but the physical condition of the nation’s wastewater treatment facilities is now in decline and needs to be repaired, replaced, and upgraded. With some sewer systems now reaching 100 years of age, the frequency of failures, sewer collapses and basement backups are on the increase in urban areas and small towns alike.
Many studies, including those of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, indicate that cities, counties, towns and townships will need to spend up to $400 billion over the next 20 years just to maintain the current level of water quality and ensure public health. It is clear that without a permanent, long-term solution to this crisis, our nation risks losing the environmental progress we have achieved over the past 33 years.
Join Other Americans in Supporting a New Clean Water Trust Fund!
An overwhelming majority (91%) of Americans polled in early 2005 agreed that, “if, as a country, we are willing to invest over $30 billion a year on highways and more than $8 billion a year on our airways and airports, we certainly should be willing to make the necessary investments in our nation’s rivers, lakes and oceans.” To read more about this study, click here now.
Help protect the quality of water
in America ...
Sign our online pledge
Join thousands of Americans who believe that it is time for Congress to act to help our communities make repairs and upgrades to their wastewater treatment facilities in order to protect our nation’s waterways. To sign the clean water pledge, click here now!
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