Clean Water for All: County Leaders Speak Out for Clean Water

The Conservation Leaders Network recently released a new report, “Clean Water for All: County Leaders Speak Out for Clean Water.” “This report tells the local stories of water pollution and destruction and the resulting harm and expense to communities. These stories remind us that to protect our local water supplies, property, infrastructure, and economies, we must look upstream to the many miles of trickling head-water and intermittently flowing streams and acres of wetlands that do most of the real work of storing and cleansing our waters. As these stories show us, we disregard at our peril these “non-navigable” workhorses of our watersheds. Unless we restore our commitment to their protection, their pollution and destruction over time will leave us with very costly reparations – and in some cases irreversible harm to our water resources.”