The document discusses threats to clean water such as global warming, pesticides, toxic chemicals, and invasive species. It notes that the Clean Water Act is meant to protect lakes, rivers, and streams for fishing, swimming, boating, and drinking water. However, recent Supreme Court decisions and EPA actions have weakened the Clean Water Act's protections, putting the drinking water of 110 million Americans at risk. The state of Missouri could lose protection for 76% of its streams and 35% of its wetlands under the weakened law.

1. Clean Water Fund our water, our health, our future Earth Month 2009

2. The Clean Water Act is designed to protect all of America’s lakes, rivers and streams. This is important because we love our water: fishing, swimming and boating are part of our way of life. It is also important because we depend on our lakes, rivers and streams as the sources of our drinking water.

5. Half of the world’s wetlands have disappeared in the last century. Global Warming will worsen this.

6. Flooding causes manure spills Huge factory farms: 300 million tons of manure per year

9. Photo: James Tan Chin Choy Less than 10% have been tested for human health effects.

15. US uses 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year

18. With these new, serious threats to our water, shouldn’t we be strengthening our water protections? Not according to the Supreme Court and EPA. They have actually weakened the Clean Water Act.

21. About 60% of streams in the US dry up for part of the year. Under the newly weakened Clean Water Act that means they can be denied protection.

22. “ Isolated” water , like wetlands, can also be denied Clean Water Act protection.

23. For Missouri, 76% of streams (84,450 miles) and 35% of wetlands (660,000 acres) could lose protections.

24. Recent efforts to weaken the Clean Water Act could leave the drinking water sources for 110 million people without protections.

27. We can’t allow the Clean Water Act to be weakened like this. We must pressure the EPA to do their job and protect our water.

29. questions or information? Andrea Kiepe Jacob 612.627.1522 work 612.226.8775 cell [email_address]