Stand up for the Clean Water Act

Small streams and headwaters need the protection of the Clean Water Act, America’s bedrock water program. A new rule is a step toward seeing that they get it.

Help defend the Clean Water Act!

ON TAP:

CLEAN WATER AND
HEALTHY FISHERIES

A new definition of the “Waters of the United States” restores key protections for small streams, headwaters, and wetlands that are critical to a healthy and functioning water system. But it faces continuing opposition in Congress and the courts.

This new definition is based in sound science (and common sense): If we pollute upstream, we put downstream waters at risk.

Millions of miles of streams and millions of acres of wetlands lost Clean Water Act protection under the previous administration. The new rule sees that they’re protected going forward.

We need your help in defending the Clean Water Act.

Join Trout Unlimited in speaking up on behalf of this landmark law, the rivers and streams we care so much about, and the watersheds we are working so hard to conserve.

“We appreciate the EPA’s hard work to get it right on ‘Waters of the U.S.’ We have the Clean Water Act to thank for making our streams and rivers healthy, fishable, and swimmable. This rule is a step in that direction.”
Chris Wood, president & CEO, Trout Unlimited

How does the Clean Water Act help protect my local waters?

Thanks to the Clean Water Act, we can drink, fish, float, swim, and enjoy our waters. To see that this continues, its protections should cover rivers, streams and wetlands we care so much about, and the watersheds we have worked so hard to conserve.

Small streams represent 60 percent of all stream miles in the United States and supply drinking water to one third of Americans.

Clean water is a lynchpin of an outdoor recreation economy that creates 4.3 million jobs and generates $689 billion in consumer spending annually. What’s more, polling shows that 92 percent of hunters and anglers support clean water protections.

Healthy headwaters are key to the conservation work TU does in trout and salmon watersheds, and to the valuable fisheries that sustain communities across the nation.