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Clean water is the foundation for healthy & prosperous communities. While our nation has made significant progress since the 1970’s in cleaning up many of our rivers, bays and other vital water resources, significant water quality and quantity challenges and inequalities remain. We work to protect clean water from the watershed to the water tap.

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The Aquifer Exemption program in the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Underground Injection Control (UIC) program allows certain oil and gas and mining activity to occur in groundwater that would otherwise be protected as a drinking water source.

Letter to Congress: 150+ Organizations in Support of Low Income Household Water Assistance Program Funding

On behalf of the more than 150 undersigned water associations, environmental, low-income, and other public interest advocates, and labor unions, we urge Congress to provide FY24 funding for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. Without action to continue this critical program, hundreds of thousands of low-income households could lose access to essential water service.

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With increased droughts, the implementation of California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and protection of vulnerable communities dependent on small water systems and domestic wells is urgent.
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