Our Rivers, Lakes & Streams

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How we protect our water:

Protecting America's Waters

The Clean Water Act has helped America clean up its waterways for 30 years, but it was weakened by the Bush administration and the courts. Read more.

Restore The Great Lakes

Environment America helps protect the Great Lakes from developers and polluters. Read more.

With rising demand for water and shrinking supply, the challenge of water scarcity is no longer confined to the Southwest. But by using water wisely, we can meet communities’ water needs and keep our rivers running freely.
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Restore The Chesapeake Bay

We are working to ensure that the EPA issues mandatory pollution limits—and tough penalties to enforce them—so that the Chesapeake Bay can finally recover.
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Our Rivers, Lakes And Streams in brief

The Great Lakes. The Mississippi. The Colorado. Chesapeake Bay. The Everglades. America's rivers, lakes, bays, harbors, estuaries and wetlands are essential to our health, our quality of life, and our natural heritage. To protect and restore these waterways, we need to curb pollution with tough permitting and enforcement, prevent runoff and sewage overflows by investing in green infrastructure, and conserve water through more efficient use.

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Protect our waters

Tell your representative to make sure that all of our rivers, lakes, and streams are protected by the Clean Water Act.

Click to watch Environment America's Senior Attorney, John Rumpler, testify on unlawful pollution threatening our waterways before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, October 15, 2009.

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Recent actions and results

Enforcing the Clean Water Act

From Oregon to Michigan to Rhode Island, we have stopped more illegal polluters with litigation under the Clean Water Act than any other non-government entity in the nation. More on our results

Latest News

Great Lakes Supporters Unveil Bipartisan Restoration Bill 3/04/2010

Today, Senators Carl Levin (MI), George Voinovich (OH) and several other members of Congress announced the introduction of a bipartisan bill to authorize several programs to protect and restore the Great Lakes and provide $650 million annually in funding. The Great Lakes Ecosystem Protection Act of 2010 will fund projects to remove contaminated sediments from the lakes, control invasive species, reduce pollution and restore fish and wildlife habitat.