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Working for Clean Water Progress
clean water fund brings people together to solve health, consumer, environmental and community problems.
2010 Annual Report
water is fundamental
Over the years, Clean Water Fund’s programs have grown to encompass a wide range of environmental and health concerns. But all of these issues and all of our work connect to clean, safe and affordable water. This remains the fundamental core of our work.
Our issues have never been more important than they are today. They cut across the entire spectrum of environmental concerns.
The Big Idea
let's create a clean water future by engaging the next generation of environmental leaders.
Nobody has a greater stake in our clean water future than youth. We need to build a new movement with fresh vision and leadership to ensure our nation’s clean water progress continues. Clean Water Fund will build this movement - with your support.
Be Water Wise - Ways to Save on Water
With 1,350 miles of coastline, the 700 mile wide Lake Okeechobee and 10 million acres of wetlands including the Everglades, Florida is known for its abundance of water. Yet, even with an average of 54 inches of rainfall a year, the sunshine state is still suffering from a severe drought that is only expected to worsen in 2008.
Add to this the 175 gallons of water the average Floridian uses each day -- about 65 more gallons per day than the average American.
It's time we all do our part to protect our most important natural resource. Here's how you and your family can make a real difference in just a few simple steps.
Check out your savings with our water calculator
Chesapeake and Coastal Bay Restoration and Protection
More than most Chesapeake Watershed states, Delaware can use its policy efforts to restore that Bay to protect and restore other state waters. By implementing a strong Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP), Delaware can reduce agricultural and street pollution runoff that will greatly improve state water policy.
Protecting the Delaware
Clean Water Action in Delaware continues to work with allies to prevent a proposal to deepen the Delaware River through dredging. If the deepening project moves forward it will unleash legacy toxics and greatly diminish efforts to restore the Delaware River and Bay.
21st Century Smart, Clean, and Green in Virginia
Clean Water Fund is working in Northern Virginia to promote new technologies for reduced water waste, appropriate water re-use, improved tree canopy, water-friendly landscaping, reduced paving, green roofs and other technologies to protect natural resources and save money. Working with utilities, elected officials, homeowner association, local environmental groups and developers, Clean Water Fund is engaging stakeholders in discussion of how to work collaboratively to improve local water policy to reflect new capabilities to reduce water waste.
Drinking Water Protection in Virginia
Clean Water Fund is working in Loudoun County to develop appropriate stream protection to reduce streambank erosion and sedimentation in the Occoquan and Potomac Rivers and their tributaries. Much of these tributaries are upstream of water intakes for Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William Counties, and Fairfax City.
Sub-Watershed Strategies
Clean Water Fund is pioneering community engagement in communities that have been under-represented and underserved for environmental health initiatives. By working with communities to relate priority issues such as education, jobs and crime to improved water quality, Clean Water Fund is working to make sure that communities are empowered and lead the effort to restore local waters and their communities. Focused efforts include tributaries of the Patapsco River in South Baltimore and the Anacostia River in Prince George's and Montgomery Counties.
Chesapeake and Coastal Bay Restoration and Protection
Maryland has made the strongest commitment of all the Watershed Implementation Plans required by President Barack Obama's Executive Order on the Chesapeake Bay, but accomplishing the implementation will require a number of policy initiatives. CWF is working to reduce septics and wastewater treatment plant pollution, reducing sprawl and revitalizing existing communities, and revamping water management to reduce the pollution from streets and parking lots, and to better manage water resources.
