Category: Clean Water

While Wisconsin’s water quality challenges have received more attention from lawmakers the last couple of years, we haven’t seen the bold, transformative policies necessary to put Wisconsin on a firm path to cleaner water come to fruition.

This truth is why in 1972, Congress enacted the bipartisan Clean Water Act to protect our nation’s streams and wetlands and keep our water safe.

The Dirty Water Rule will have major impacts to water quality due to the importance of ephemeral streams and non-adjacent wetlands.

Early last year, in his State of the State Address, Gov. Evers declared 2019 the Year of Clean Drinking Water.

Our research puts a number on the nitrate pollution crisis being felt around the state. Not only is this a serious threat to human health, but it has a major impact on our state’s economy.

After hearing from hundreds of Wisconsinites about water quality issues across many months, the Water Quality Task Force released a number of bills. Here's our take on this legislation.

It puts the state on the path to getting to the end result of state protections from PFAS pollution we desperately need.

This January is quickly shaping up to be a busy month for drinking water, with many consequential policy actions taking place.

In October, Clean Wisconsin led a small group of individuals for a small  lobby day in Washington, D.C., to share stories about the importance of the Great Lakes with elected officials.

In the months ahead, we’ll be working with lawmakers and state agencies to make sure these rules protect drinking water and public health and offer every resident in Wisconsin with a well polluted by nitrates hope clean drinking water in the future.