water is fundamentalOver 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.
Your U.S. Senators need to hear from you that controlling coal ash pollution is a common sense way to protect our health, our water and our communities.
We need you to tell your Senators: Coal ash is too toxic not to regulate
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Prevent Pollution and Health Harm Before Toxics Enter Our Water
The Problem: You’ve seen the reports on “gender-bending” fish in waterways around the country, and pharmaceutical drugs detected in drinking water sources… On the aging water treatment systems that spill raw sewage whenever it rains… And the thousands of water pollution or safe drinking water violations that go unpunished each year. For every “regulated” contaminant there are tens of thousands for which safety standards have yet to be set. Under-funded government agencies are years behind in meeting environmental cleanup, research and health protection targets.
Clean Water Fund staff are quoted in articles the week of November 15, 2010 in Time Magazine and The Wall St. Journal. This national news coverage reflects the timeliness of "clean water" issues and the organization's recognized role as an authoritative voice and effectiveness advancing solutions that protect water and health.
Two cutting edge coalitions which Clean Water Fund cofounded and continues to help lead recently teamed up with our friends Annie Leonard and the Story of Stuff project to produce two new solution-oriented videos.
These new Free Range Studio productions spotlight ways that "business as usual" can lead to health-harming ingredients in consumer and personal care products and how a rising tide of electronics wastes threatens health and safety world wide.
Source Water Assessments must include four basic elements:
Audited Financials (pdf, 261kb)
Form 990 - Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (pdf, 1.1 MB)