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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.
Healthy, Safer Families and Communities in New Jersey
Advancing "upstream" solutions that protect people from toxic harm by reducing and preventing pollution at its source. Replacing consumer, cleaning and pest control products with safer alternatives.
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.
Environmental Justice in Mayland
Clean Water Fund is working on a series of policy initiatives and creating outreach to communities who suffer from a disproportionate share of the environmental health impacts of industrial and residential zoning that subject residents to neighboring polluting facilities. Clean Water Fund is continuing to promote replacements for incinerators, requiring best available technologies on pollution permits, and seeking a more thorough review of health impacts on communities by industrial facilities.
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.
Water Management in the District
Clean Water Fund is working with allies to implement what is expected to be a new strong standard for reducing street and parking lot pollution runoff that is expected to be issued by the Environmental Protection Agency this year. Implementation strategies include working with developers to reduce water waste and encourage re-use of rainwater, and to build landscaping initiatives that increase trees, and other green areas that soak up precipitation to beautify communities.
District Bag Fee
Clean Water Fund is working with allies to build on the successful campaign to place a 5 cents fee for plastic and paper bags, to discourage unneccesary waste and help fund clean-up efforts. Clean Water Fund has also worked to ensure that the fund created by the fee isn't raided during challenging budget discussions between the Mayor and Council.
Taking Out the Trash in California
We consume too much stuff. Single use disposable products impact public health and the environment in every step of their lifecycle- from raw materials extraction to manufacture, transport and disposal. The impacts range from oil spills and deforestation, to energy and water use, pesticide use, soil depletion, water and air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Plastic pollution in our oceans is at epidemic proportions and provides a clear signal that we are wasting the planet’s resources and polluting our waterways with that waste. Clean Water Fund is researching and developing new policies to reduce these impacts at the source.
