Protect the drinking water of millions of Americans
When you turn on your tap, you shouldn’t have to worry if your water will be clean.
The Dirty Water Rule puts our drinking water at risk.
The Dirty Water Rule, left over from the Trump administration, put the drinking water of millions of Americans at risk of pollution.1
But with your help, we can put an end to the destructive Dirty Water Rule.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding a comment period to eliminate the Dirty Water Rule. We’re taking action — and you can add your name to protect our drinking water once more.
Protecting our water from sewage, chemicals and toxic pollutants.
Polluters and developers are fighting against EPA’s plan to scrap the Dirty Water Rule, but if we all raise our voices for water protections, the EPA will have the public support it needs to move forward.
The Clean Water Act of 1972 protected our waters from sewage, chemicals and toxic pollutants — until the Trump administration stripped these protections to instigate the polluter-friendly Dirty Water Rule in 2020.
Without the protection of the Clean Water Act, half of our wetlands and thousands of streams were left vulnerable to pollution.2 These waters don’t just provide drinking water to communities across the country, they are also crucial ecosystems for much of our wildlife, and even help mitigate against flooding.
To protect these waters, the EPA needs to repeal the Dirty Water Rule and replace it with policy that permanently restores federal clean water protections.
Take action to tell protect our clean drinking water.
Clean water shouldn’t be a question. Now, we need your help to make sure it’s never a question again.
The EPA has the power to protect the drinking water of millions of Americans. Tell the agency to protect clean water across the country by taking action today.
- Mary Katherine Moore, “The EPA just announced plans to repeal the ‘Dirty Water Rule.’ Here’s what that means and what we did to make it happen,” Environment America, June 11, 2021.
- Mary Katherine Moore, “The EPA just announced plans to repeal the ‘Dirty Water Rule.’ Here’s what that means and what we did to make it happen,” Environment America, June 11, 2021.