Thanks to the following CWN Members & Partners for your support this past year. Your donations help CWN make waves on Capitol Hill and across the country for clean water! If you are not on our member or supporter list, please consider contributing today to Clean Water Network by clicking on DONATE. For those of you who donated during the holiday season, it made a difference. Thank you very much!

With foundation funding dwindling and a less than robust economy, support to CWN is critical. Becoming a dues paying member and/or partnering with CWN on its Power of Water Campaign, helps the organization as well as all of our members' efforts to protect our country's precious water resources. We look forward to working with all of you this year and beyond on the many challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. The full list of members and partners can be found by clicking on link below.

2012 Members: Thanks to the following organizations who have renewed their annual dues for 2012! We cannot do it without you and appreciate your support! We have also listed those organizations who have contributed early in 2013 for the 2012 membership year. Thanks to all of you!

Alabama Rivers Alliance

Alabama Water Watch Association

Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association

Alliance for the Great Lakes (IL)

Assateague Coastkeeper

Audubon Society of Rhode Island (RI)

Amigos Bravos Inc. (NM)

Clean Water Network teamed up with colleagues from across the country to sign a letter to U.S. Senators asking that important reforms be included in the next Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).  As outlined in the letter, the reforms are critical for ensuring that the Army Corps of Engineers better manages taxpayer dollars to improve the safety and economic well being of communities across the country and to improve the health of the nation’s rivers, coasts, and wetlands.

The letter urges Congress to ensure compliance with the WRDA 2007 national water policy, by requiring the use of nonstructural and restoration measures where they can provide an appropriate level of protection and benefits.  The letter also emphasizes that in order to comply with the WRDA 2007 mitigation provision, Congress needs to adopt mitigation measures recommended pursuant to the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act.

Attachment: 

WRDA_WPN_Sign_On_Final_11-29-12 (1).pdf

Are you planning to attend the 2013 Presidential Inauguration ceremony on January 21st?

Let us know. If there are enough clean water advocates in town for the big day we will try to arrange a clean water get together over the long weekend! Stay tuned. We are also exploring offering special one of a kind clean water Inauguration knit hats for sale, since it is typically cold that day! The Hats will say, "Got Clean Water?" on one side and, 2nd Inauguration of President Barack Obama, January 21st, 2013 on the flip side. Please email cwnheadquarters@cwn.org to let us know your plans and if you want to be part of the clean water celebration that weekend!

Remember we need to make our voices heard loudly. It is imperative that the Administration make clean water a TOP PRIORITY this second go-around! A number of the clean water community's priority issues, including the critical EPA & Corps of Engineers Waters of the US Guidance document, that would restore important Clean Water Act protections, have been stalled.   The reasons are endless, including the presidential election, inter-agency review road blocks, and pressing fiscal cliff issues. But in reality vital clean water issues have fallen off of the Administration's radar scene because they are politically difficult. Let's use the Inauguration to celebrate the wonderful possibilities the next four years could bring. But let's also use this major milestone to make some noise and raise awareness of how important it is to protect our nation's waters. Stand Up with CWN to make it politically difficult  for the Administration and Congress not to make clean water a TOP PRIORITY!