Food & Water Action is working to keep our water under public control, improve our public water systems, and make water service safe and affordable for all. You can be a part of the fight. Because all people deserve clean water.
Corporate polluters (like Big Ag and Big Oil & Gas), lack of infrastructure investment, and climate change are putting the safety of our water at risk. That’s why Food & Water Action is working every day to ensure safe, clean public water for all. Will you donate now?
For years, water rates have skyrocketed across the country, and access to clean water has been limited due to increased corporate privatization, aging infrastructure, climate change and lack of federal investment. The COVID-19 pandemic brought these water inequities to light and revealed that millions of people can’t afford water for basic everyday needs like cooking, bathing and washing hands.
But Food & Water Action is working to ensure everyone has affordable, reliable access to clean water. We are fighting to:
Pass the PFAS Action Act, which would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS (the two most studied PFAS "forever" chemicals) and would designate these as “hazardous substances” under the Superfund program to facilitate the cleanup of toxic sites.
Long-term exposure to PFAS chemicals is associated with birth defects, thyroid disease, weakened immunity, liver problems and cancer. The corporations that produce PFAS chemicals have known about these dangers for decades and suppressed reports about health risks.
Pass the WATER Act, which would reinvest federal dollars to provide $35 billion a year for drinking water and wastewater improvements, and would help homeowners replace lead service lines, remove PFAS from drinking water, and upgrade household wells and septic systems.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that at least $744 billion is needed to upgrade our drinking water and wastewater systems over the next 20 years. Nothing short of dedicated yearly funding and investment in our water infrastructure will help us meet this challenge. The WATER Act is that dedicated funding source.
Reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. The 401 Water Quality Certification process is a powerful tool that gives states the ability to protect their rivers and streams from big infrastructure projects — like fracked gas pipelines — and ensures that those projects don't have impacts on local water quality or violate state law. It has been critical for blocking fracked gas pipelines in several states, so it's a tool we need to protect and ensure it works as intended.
Food & Water Action is fighting for a robust federal investment in our public water infrastructure to renovate our nation's old and lead-ridden water pipes, help towns that are affected by PFAS contamination, stop sewage overflows and avert a looming water affordability crisis.
Food & Water Action and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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