Clean Water Fund

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

May 15, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$3,842,886

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Clean and safe water. Programs to promote: - integrated solutions for clean and safe water that protect drinking water for residential consumers and that also protect the natural areas from which water supplies are drawn (wetlands, forested watersheds, rivers, lakes and streams).- protection of underground water resources, and to ensure supplies of safe, affordable, drinking water for more than 100 million americans who depend on groundwater for their household water needs. - efficient and cost effective methods for meeting peoples' needs for safe, clean drinking water supplies and balancing recreation, environmental, business, agricultural and residential demands on limited water supplies.- protection of coastal and inland waterways, their tributaries, and the complex ecosystems, local economies, and communities dependent on them, with a special emphasis on protecting the health, welfare and quality of life for residents and users of coastal and shorefront areas. - sound management of the nation's land and water resources, including the preservation of wetlands, forest ecosystems, open space and other critical habitat areas, stores of biodiversity, and other sources of economic and quality of life benefit for people.- investment in clean and safe water policies, enforcement as well as infrastructure maintenance/upgrades.- strong water quality and drinking water safety standards, effective public notification when standards are violated or public health may be threatened. Clean water fund continues to expand its series of clean and safe water program initiatives promoting integrated approaches for resource protection and drinking water safety. These programs combine and expand on earlier programs for clean, safe and affordable drinking water and for land and water resources protection and conservation. In close coordination with its environmental health programs, clean water fund promotes more stringent water standards aimed at protecting society's most vulnerable people (infants and children, the frail elderly, cancer and hiv patients and others). Through its community water protection project, clean water fund fosters constituency building for natural resource conservation and safe drinking water. Clean water fund sponsors the campaign for safe and affordable drinking water, a coalition which advocates for stronger standards limiting toxic and cancer causing arsenic in drinking water. "watershed to water tap" programs integrating the above strategies are being conducted in california, new england, new jersey, pennsylvania and other states. In addition, clean water fund led successful state-based education campaigns to halt proposed regulatory changes that would have weakened regulations on sewage dumping in waterways and drinking water sources nationwide. Clean water fund is organizing community residents to protect local waterways and reduce runoff pollution.

Activity 3

Sustainable energy and global warming. Clean water fund's efforts to reduce power plant pollution and to encourage development of less polluting alternatives include active programs in the midwest, southwest and northeast, and remain top priorities and are expanding to address related global climate change problems, with an emphasis on economy-wide "polluter pay" policy solutions and participation in the national clear the air campaign. Clean water fund continues to develop new energy consumer education initiatives in new england, the upper midwest and other regions, and engaging in electric utility industry deregulation debates to insure a level playing field for clean power production that creates jobs and protects the environment. Clean water fund promotes "smart growth" development to rebuild community cores in urban areas and small towns and combat costly and destructive sprawl, which exacerbate global warming and other pollution problems. Clean water fund helps to lead state-based and regional coalitions in new england and the upper midwest which promote clean energy solutions that help reduce global warming pollution. Clean water fund also assists community groups and conservationists in exposing "false solutions" to global warming, such as "clean coal" or "coal-to-liquid" development, corn-based biofuels, and nuclear energy which can have devastating environmental impacts, fail to provide significant benefits to solving the global warming crisis and divert financial resources which could otherwise be invested in cleaner, renewable energy solutions, efficiency and conservation.

Filer

EIN

52-1043444