Food & Water Action is fighting for safe, affordable drinking water for all. You can help. This month your donation will be matched $2-to-$1. That means for every $1 you give, a generous group of donors will add $2 (up to $500,000).
Water bills have skyrocketed across the country. Water privatization, aging infrastructure and little federal support mean higher rates for water. Millions of households can’t even afford water for basic everyday needs. Worse yet, millions of people in the United States have had their water shut off because of sky-high water bills.
At the same time, our water infrastructure is decaying after decades of neglect. That leaves many of us without access to clean drinking water. Low-resource communities are especially hard-hit.
But Food & Water Action is fighting to keep our water under public control, improve our water systems, and make water service safe and affordable for everyone. We all deserve clean water.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, with your help we stopped water service shutoffs in more than 800 communities, protecting two-thirds of the people across the country. One report from Food & Water Watch and Cornell University found that a nationwide water shutoff moratorium during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic might have prevented 9,000 deaths and nearly 500,000 COVID infections.
This study highlights why our fight for water access is so important. We have been at the forefront of the national drive for a full moratorium on water shutoffs and a massive federal investment in our public water infrastructure. Our fight will help renovate our nation's old and lead-ridden water pipes, aid towns affected by contamination from dangerous chemicals like PFAS, stop sewage overflows, and begin to address the water affordability crisis.
In 2022, we’ll continue to fight to pass the PFAS Action Act, which would ensure the Environmental Protection Agency hits urgent deadlines to set enforceable limits on PFOA and PFOS (two dangerous PFAS "forever chemicals”) in drinking water, and make polluters pay to clean up the worst contamination. It would also provide $200 million annually for wastewater treatment and list PFAS as hazardous air pollutants.
We will also fight for 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.
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Action and Food & Water Watch
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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