Recent Events

Sun, 01/01/2012

Conference
North Charleston, South Carolina
Fri, 06/03/2011 - Mon, 06/06/2011

The strength of our movement lies in working and sharing together. Despite our many challenges, this is truly a time of opportunity to better protect our home waters.

This year, water protection advocates from across the nation will come together in Charleston, South Carolina, a city with a long history, sitting at the confluence of five rivers, and boasting the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

Clean Water Week
Washington, DC
Tue, 03/01/2011 - Wed, 03/02/2011

Briefing/Press Event
Washington, DC
Wed, 11/03/2010

Clean Water Network is participating with EPA on a dialog on climate change and its implications for the EPA National Water Program. EPA published their initial strategy in 2008, and a subsequent 'Key Action Update' just recently. EPA is now working to revise their strategy for FY2012 and beyond. Their vision is to articulate some long term goals,set in a broader national context, and explore some of the key building blocks that need to be put in place to get there.

Caucus/Summit/Workshop
Little Rock, Arkansas
Tue, 09/14/2010 - Thu, 09/16/2010

Bluemont Park, Arlington, VA
Fri, 07/16/2010

Register today for the Run for the Gulf 5K benefitting the work of the Clean Water Network. The money raised from this event will support the Clean Water Network's Gulf Assistance Fund and the Gulf Restoration Network, a Clean Water Network member that works on issues surrounding the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The race is scheduled for Friday, July 16th, 2010 at 7:30 at Bluemont Park in Arlington, VA.

Briefing/Press Event
House Visitors Center Room 200, Russell Senate Office Building room 385
Tue, 06/22/2010
Conference
Snowbird, UT
Fri, 05/21/2010 - Mon, 05/24/2010
The 2010 National River Rally will provide a number of informative and exciting sessions on water conservation and quality. These sessions include a series of intensive, 4-hour workshops on Friday afternoon; over 70 additional workshops covering topics of interest to staff, volunteers and board members of river conservation organizations; office hours, mentoring sessions and real life, in-person conversations with funders and exhibitors; The River Heroes Banquet: a memorable and...
Briefing/Press Event
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2253
Wed, 03/17/2010

On March 17th, 2010, American Rivers and a number of other groups hosted a successful Green Infrastructure Briefing in Rayburn House Office Building. The briefing focused on the economic and environmental benefits of greening projects. The well attended briefing featured discussion of HR 2222, the Green Communities Act and HR 4202, the Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act. For more information on the briefing see the...

Briefing/Press Event
Cannon House Office Building, Room 122
Mon, 03/15/2010

The briefing will focus on discussing why the Mississippi River Basin lags behind in funding and resources compared to other Great Waters in the United States (Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes, Everglades, etc). A main purpose of the briefing is to identify lessons learned from other regions and explore how we can close the funding gap to help restore and protect the Mississippi River Basin. Generous support for the briefing made possible by McKnight Foundation.

Caucus/Summit/Workshop
Arlington Echo Environmental Education Center, Millersville, MD
Sat, 01/30/2010

The Clean Water Act: A Key Tool for Watershed Protection
Advocacy Training for Citizen and Stakeholders

On January 30th, 2010, the Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center hosted an advocacy training session for citizens and stakeholders on using the Clean Water Act as a key tool for watershed protection. The course was intended to teach people how to communicate using the legal and regulatory language that government can't...

Conference
Washington, DC
Sun, 01/10/2010 - Tue, 01/12/2010

The Choose Clean Water coalition hosted a national conference January 10-12, 2010 in Washington, DC. Modeled after successful, nationally-recognized, annual conferences in the Great Lakes and Everglades, the 2010 Choose Clean Water Conference focused on President Obama's Executive Order on Bay restoration, the approaching deadline for federal Bay clean-up, and the pending Congressional re-authorization of the Bay Program.

Conference workshops and plenary sessions focused at a Federal...

Caucus/Summit/Workshop
Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Thu, 10/22/2009 - Fri, 10/23/2009

Smart, Green and Clean: 21st Century Water Management in the Great Lakes: BIG SUCCESS

Hearing
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
Thu, 10/15/2009

The U.S. House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee held a hearing October 15th, to investigate Clean Water Enforcement failures. The hearing focused on concerns with the lack of progress by the Environmental Protection Agency and state agencies in meeting the goals of "fishable and swimmable waters" called for in the Clean Water Act.

Midwest Environmental Advocates volunteer and CWN member Judy Treml testified about the contamination of her family's well and...

Caucus/Summit/Workshop
New Orleans, LA
Thu, 10/01/2009 - Sat, 10/03/2009

CWN joined forces with the Sierra Club, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and the Gulf Restoration Network to organize a landmark regional summit on Mississippi River Basin environmental issues in New Orleans. The Summit focused on developing strategies to address the enormous environmental challenges we face from the expanding Dead Zone in the Gulf. The event attracted more than 100 attendees! Through a generous grant from the McKnight Foundation, CWN provided travel funding...