Category: Clean Water

Every family in Wisconsin deserves safe water, but tens of thousands of rural Wisconsinites can’t drink the water flowing from their taps because their wells are contaminated with harmful nitrates or PFAS.

Prehn cast the deciding vote to block groundwater standards for harmful PFAS chemicals and voted to weaken new PFAS drinking water standards. Today the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Natural Resources Board member Fred Prehn could stay in his seat indefinitely.

Clean Wisconsin among a coalition of environmental groups that sued to stop the rule

To date, the Mississippi River, one of America’s iconic waterways, has received no such investment, but hopefully that will soon change.

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.