Water sustains all life. We drink it, we bathe in it, we grow our food with it. We can’t live without it. Yet today, water is being polluted, depleted and diverted at a rapid rate. One in 6 people — more than 1 billion — lack access to clean water. And that number will increase if we do not act now.

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Support tap water. Our water infrastructure is in desperate need of repair. In order to protect our essential water resources, create tens of thousands of green jobs, and safeguard public health, we need a permanent and dedicated federal funding source.

Urge your Congressperson to support the Water Protection and Reinvestment Trust Fund.
Learn more about the groundwater crisis.
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Drink tap water. Interested in buying a filter? Check out our guide.

Join the Take Back the Tap movement. Sign the Take Back the Tap pledge and encourage restaurants, universities, or city governments to break the bottled water habit.

Private vs. Public

Communities that have experimented with privatization have found that it does not solve their water woes. In fact, many private companies are providing worse service at a higher cost than most public utilities. Learn more.

Funding Clean Water

While American tap water is still among the safest in the world, our water infrastructure, is aging and deteriorating in the face of less money for renewal and repair, and of more people needing household water service. Learn more.

Bottled Water

Bottled water is not safer than tap water. Bottled water creates mountains of garbage and causes other major environmental problems. Bottled water is way more expensive than tap water. Bottled water companies mislead communities into giving away their public water in exchange for dangerous jobs. Learn more.

Water Conservation

Make the most of the water you use in your home. Consider taking shorter showers. Invest in a low–flow toilet or put a plastic bottle filled with water in your toilet tank to reduce the amount of water used per flush. Turn off the tap while brushing teeth or shaving. Learn more.

Desalination

As cities face increasing water management problems, some companies and elected officials are pushing an expensive, energy-intensive technology called ocean water desalination. Desalination separates salt from seawater. It might sound like a good idea, but this technology’s hazards far outweigh its potential benefits. Learn more.

Chemical Contaminants

There may be a dangerous chemical in your everyday household products that persists in the environment, mixes with other chemicals to form more toxic chemicals, contributes to the growing problem of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, and causes a range of human health problems. Learn more.

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Reports

Not Worth Its Salt — How Rockland County Could End Up Paying for an Unn ...
Mortgaging Milwaukee’s Future — The City of Milwaukee faces a serious fiscal predi ...
Unmeasured Danger: America’s Hidden Groundwater Crisis — Farmers in the western United States are drilling ...
Sustaining Our Water Future — The Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD) is devel ...
Water Privatization Threatens Workers, Consumers and Local Economies — Our country’s good public operators have kept wa ...