You can help keep all of our country's waters safe and clean for people and wildlife!

Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and federal agencies have created confusion about whether certain waters will remain protected by the Clean Water Act – the nation's most important law limiting water pollution.

The Bush administration is now taking public comment on a policy that would jeopardize thousands of streams and wetlands.

If you care about clean water for drinking, swimming, fish and wildlife, now is the time to ACT!

Under review is an Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers policy that leaves many waters, including wetlands and tributary streams, without protection and even open for destruction.

Please, write a comment to the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers urging them to substantially revise their policy. Help us send a message that all of America's waters must be protected. The public can comment until January 21, 2008.

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I am writing to urge the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to revise their June 2007 guidance to protect America's waters from pollution and destruction.

In its current form, the guidance leaves many waters, including wetlands, open for destruction; leaves many tributary streams without clear protection; and ignores legal tools the agencies could use to preserve streams and wetlands even when they collectively are important to water quality.

The guidance affects 20 million acres of wetlands and nearly 2 million miles of streams that do not flow year-round. Even in the case of water bodies that provide drinking water, flood control, or recreation, the guidance as written creates a resource-intensive, confusing, and subjective process to show that the particular water body is "significant" enough to warrant protection.

I am also sending this letter to my U.S. Senators and Representative so that they are aware of my concerns about the guidance, and to urge them to pass legislation to reaffirm and restore protections for all waters under the Clean Water Act.

Please protect clean water: revise the guidance so that it protects all of America's waters to the maximum extent allowable by law.

Sincerely,

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January 11, 2008