Write your legislator to get crucial water funding over the finish line

Hi John,

Yesterday, the Joint Finance Committee voted to support a big investment in safe, affordable drinking water – $732 million big! Thanks to you, they passed a $732 million investment in our Safe Drinking Water Loan Program and the Clean Water Fund Program, which provide low-interest loans to communities for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects.

This much-needed investment will better protect public health, create good paying jobs, and take us one step closer to helping Wisconsinites avoid the up to $2.04 billion in annual health expenses associated with PFAS, lead, and nitrate contamination.

This couldn’t have happened without you – I mean it. Your attendance at Conservation Lobby Day and your outreach to legislators was critical to the Joint Finance Committee’s support for this investment.

Today we celebrate, but let me be clear – our work’s not done. Yesterday’s vote is an important step, but we need your help to ensure this investment passes the full legislature and makes it to Gov. Evers’ desk for his signature.

Will you take two minutes to email your legislators and ask them to support increased funding for safe drinking water? >>>

EMAIL YOUR LEGISLATORS

There are more than 1,000 projects on the priority lists for these programs in the next year. Some of those include:

New drinking water treatment projects in Fountain City, Oak Creek, and Medford
New wastewater treatment projects in Madison, Racine, Reedsburg, and Stevens Point
Replacing old water mains, many of which may contain lead, in Ashland, Beaver Dam, Clintonville, Markesan, Milwaukee, Mineral Point, New Berlin, and Whitefish Bay
PFAS-specific projects in Brockway, Campbell, Green Lake, Hales Corners, La Crosse, Mosinee, Palmyra, Pewaukee, Prairie du Chien, Rhinelander, Sheboygan, Sturgeon Bay, Tomahawk, and Walworth

Yesterday’s committee vote takes us one step closer to ensuring Wisconsin can support projects like these in 2026 and beyond, but we need you to write your legislators to get this over the finish line.

EMAIL YOUR LEGISLATORS

Thank you for fighting for our water,

Peter Burress

Government Affairs Manager

Wisconsin Conservation Voters

P.S. Donate our work to get this funding over the finish line. Our organizing team will be mobilizing people around the state to make sure we keep the pressure on our elected officials and get this in the state budget.

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Wisconsin Conservation Voters
133 S. Butler Street Suite 320
Madison, WI 53703
United States

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