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Still from film of Amara Strande, caption: "Despite her illness, she testified to the State Legislature"

Water is Treasure – and so is our global community

January 21, 2025 | By Avonna Starck

A documentary film crew from Japan visited our community to screen their made-for-television film, Water is Treasure – Fighting PFAS Contamination! Fight for Life. The film chronicles how mothers in Japan are leading efforts to raise awareness about PFAS contamination in their drinking water, which they attribute to U.S. military bases and the use of PFAS-based firefighting foam, and weaves in stories from the United States.

ReThink Disposable: Reducing Single Use Trash in Philadelphia

March 28, 2024 | By Mercedes Forsyth

Thanks to support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Plastic Free Restaurants, a new waste reduction program called ReThink Disposable has made its way to Philadelphia and is playing a new and essential part in helping reduce trash and litter in the city.

Image of Clean Water Action's Mercedes Forsyth at Alif Brew and Mini Mart

Image of a plastic spoon with text that says Do NOT Give Clean Water Fund money to fight plastic pollution on 401Gives by: a plastic spoon

Listen to me, a plastic spoon: Do NOT give Clean Water Fund money to fight plastic pollution on 401Gives!

Posted on March 25, 2024

Clean Water Fund wants to raise money on 401Gives for their ReThink Disposable campaign to directly fund replacing disposable plastic forks, cups, and spoons (like me!) with reusable products at restaurants and institutions across Rhode Island

2024 Groundwater Awareness Week: Celebrating Our Great Hidden Resource

March 15, 2024 | By Jennifer Clary

Groundwater is a huge part of California's climate adaptation plan, as hotter and more extreme weather will make our surface water supplies less reliable. Over the past two decades, a period that experts now consider a mega-drought, groundwater users pumped record amounts of groundwater, resulting in thousands of dry wells and severe land subsidence in areas of the state.