Friend: We at Waterkeeper Alliance believe that clean water is a basic human right. If you’re reading this email, we suspect you believe that, too.
We have an incredible opportunity, right now, to make good on this belief — but it will take support from every person who shares our dedication to defend drinkable, fishable, swimmable waters for all.
Friend, we have enormous work ahead of us in 2023 to protect waterways and communities across six continents, where we’re using organizing, advocacy, and litigation to stop polluting special interests.
Over this past year, we kicked off the countdown to the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act by sharing our ACT50 Priorities to strengthen the law and stop pollution, promoting ACT50 events around the country, and highlighting major Waterkeeper victories.
Nearly 50 years after its passage, half of our waters are impaired by pollution. Here’s what we’re doing about it — with your help:
We are keeping constant pressure on the federal government to fulfill the landmark legislation’s potential.
We worked with our international Waterkeeper groups to develop a tool to compare the Clean Water Act with other countries' water quality laws.
We intend to keep our mission of clean water for all going strong, and in every part of the world, for the next fifty years and beyond through groundbreaking water quality monitoring efforts, advocacy, policy, enforcement, and oversight.
Nothing about this to-do list is easy — and it’s far from our only priority in 2023.
We will have to fight for every inch of progress and for every victory; nothing Waterkeeper Alliance does happens without you, Friend. Nothing.
