- Clean Water Network
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Motto Protecting America's Water Resources Established 1992 Exec. Dir. Natalie Roy Headquarters Washington, DC, USA Membership 1,200 Organizations[1] Status 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Homepage www.cleanwaternetwork.org/ The Clean Water Network (CWN) is an American coalition of more than 1,200 local, state and national non-profit interest groups coordinating to promote water health, safety, and quality interests in the United States. CWN was formed in 1992 as a project of the National Resources Defense Council. The primary functions of CWN are to coordinate a variety of public interest organizations on clean water issues so that these groups may combine resources and advocate together, and to "safeguard water quality for future generations by working to defend, strengthen and implement the Clean Water Act and other key federal and state legislation impacting water."[2] CWN's current policy priority is Senator Russ Feingold's S.787, dubbed the "Clean Water Restoration Act", which seeks to remove the "navigable" clause from the original Clean Water Act, a term that has been the subject of several controversial recent United States Supreme Court decisions including SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers (2001) and Rapanos v. United States (2006).
Categories:- Environmental organizations based in Washington, D.C.
- Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
- Organizations established in 1992
- Conservation organizations based in the United States
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