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I'm 22 with a new job focused on clean water. Here's why I'm doing it.

March 19, 2025 | By Morgan Schafer

Instead of paying for their mess, multi-billion-dollar industries are spending massive sums to influence Minnesota lawmakers. Our message is clear: We are open to partnership, but we are unwavering in our belief that polluters should pay. Only when this hits their bottom line will they be motivated to change.

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

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

Hot Creek flows through the Long Valley Caldera in a volcanically active region of east-central California.

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.