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Clean Water Network e-News
What would Katniss wear?
Blue of course! Blue is the new GREEN. Wear Blue next week for Earth Week and Earth Day!
Blue signifies clean water and blue skies, it is the NEW Green! We anticipate millions of Americans will be wearing blue on Earth Day! Pass the word, Blue is the new Green, wear BLUE on Earth Day and join clean water activists from across the country for:
America's 1st Annual FLOAT-IN EARTH DAY!
Speakers for the event include Consumer Advocate, Author, and Political Activist Ralph Nader, EPA Acting Assistant Administrator of Water Nancy Stoner and Clean Water America Alliance President Benjamin Grumbles. A more detailed agenda with other news updates follows below.
   
To volunteer or to let us know you will be floating in some way, shape, or form email Natalieroy@cleanwaternetwork TODAY. Help us get the word out about this important clean water demonstration that marks a major milestone, the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, one of our nation's landmark environmental laws!
Remember even if you cannot float come on down to the River bank to join us for this important clean water event! Please pass this notice to your networks, post on your facebook pages, tell your friends and family!
FLOAT-IN Earth Day details follow below.
Other news updates and a profile of CWN Member
Northwest Environmental Advocates
can be found after the FLOAT-IN DETAILS below!
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NATIONAL FLOAT-IN Earth Day DETAILS:
The 1st Annual National FLOAT-IN Earth Day marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, one of our nation's landmark environmental laws. It is also an opportunity to celebrate our country's beautiful rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, bays and coastal areas, and say NO to Dirty Water! This event is part of Clean Water Network's year-long Power of Water Campaign, to celebrate the past and fight for clean water for the future. Our Washington DC FLOAT-IN will help to launch community based FLOAT-IN's to spotlight the plight of waterways across America.
On Sunday, April 22nd from 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM, bring your boats, canoes, kayaks, rafts, yachts & even bathtubs (if they can float), to Diamond Teague Park (behind the Nationals Baseball Stadium) at the Earth Conservation Corps Historic Pump House Office and dock at 1st Street and Potomac Ave. SE, Washington DC. If you cannot float no worries, come down to the waterfront and join us for boat tours, speakers, musical entertainment, earth day displays and Yoga classes. We will also be giving out several clean water champion awards to grassroots activists from across the country.
Brought to you by Clean Water Network, the largest coalition in the country working to protect All of the waters of the U.S., including the nation's Great Waters, rivers, streams, lakes, bays. estuaries, coastal areas and wetlands. We are partnering with our close neighbor and a wonderful organization Earth Conservation Corps on this Earth Day event.
If you cannot join us, go to your favorite river, creek, stream, lake, beach or bay and take a picture of you and friends floating! Please post the picture on facebook, or on your organization's website etc. on Earth Day. We want to create a community photo montage of people across the country celebrating their local waterways on the first annual FLOAT-IN EARTH DAY! Please send a copy of the photo to cwnheadquarters@cwn.org.
Event Details:
3pm: FLOAT IN & Earth Day Festivities Begin
Floating on the River
Everything Entertainment DJ
Raffle for terrific prizes (click HERE for a list of the donated prizes) All proceeds from the raffle will go to CWN's State Assistance Fund.
Boat tours by Anacostia Watershed Society, Earth Conservation Corps & Potomac Riverkeeper
Special Yoga Class outside compliments of Anacostia Yogi (bring your mat!)
Refreshments
Information Tables & Displays
3:00 pm: Red Light Distraction
Gen Y: Rock & Roll
 4:00 PM: Ralph Nader Consumer advocate, lawyer, author, and named byTime Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Americans in the Twentieth Century. 4:30 PM: Margot MacDonald Washington DC Award winning singer/performer 5:15 pm: Jerel James Pop/R&B singer 6 pm: Special Speakers EPA Acting Assistant Administrator Nancy Stoner, Office of Water Clean Water America Alliance President Benjamin Grumbles and former EPA Assistant Administrator of Water 6:20 pm: Clean Water Champion Awards A new documentary, Last Call to the Oasis, on the global water crisis, directed by Academy Award Winner Jessica Yu, will be screened at the event as well.
For more information on the event and Float-In or on how to contribute or volunteer please contact Natalie Roy at natalieroy@cleanwaternetwork or Briana Giosta at briana@cleanwaternetwork.org. More information for the event can be found HERE. To contribute and/or purchase raffle tickets please click HERE.
MAKE SURE TO GET YOUR T-SHIRTS FOR EARTH DAY TODAY!
Click on the following link to get a Power of Water T-Shirt today to make sure you have one in time to wear for EARTH DAY:
Remember purchasing T-shirts helps support Clean Water Network's core grassroots programs. Of course our T-shirts also make terrific Post-St. Patrick's Day and March Madness & Earth Day gifts!
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POWER OF WATER PARTNER NEWS!
Contributors to the event include:
Amigos Bravos (NM), U.S. Geological Survey, Anacostia Watershed Society,
Earth Conservation Corps. Washington Capitals, Spy Museum,
 River Network, Potomac Riverkeeper, Shenandoah Riverkeeper, Anacostia DC Yoga, Earth Island Institute (AK), St. Louis Confluence Riverkeeper, Participant Media,The Kennedy Center, the 9:30 Club, Capital Bikeshare, Restaurant Nora, Landmark Cinemas, Starbucks, Gulf Restoration Network, Entertainer Margot MacDonald, Tennessee Clean Water Network,
American Forests, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Pacers Running Store, National Garden Clubs Inc, Clean Water Action, Trader Joe's, DC United,
Washington Capitols, Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt, Appalachian Voices, Colorado Watershed Assembly, and the Alabama Rivers Alliance.
If you are interested in renting a table to distribute information or wish to become an official partner please email Natalie Roy at natalieroy@cleanwaternetwork.org.
Thanks in advance for supporting Clean Water Network's 1st Annual FLOAT-IN EARTH DAY!
Natalie U. Roy
Executive Director
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POWER OF WATER UPDATES:
(1) New American Rivers Green Infrastructure Report
CWN Board member group, American Rivers, released a new report highlighting the economic benefits of green infrastructure strategies to better manage polluted runoff.
Web page link: http://www.americanrivers.org/library/reports-publications/going-green-to-save-green.html
Direct link: http://www.americanrivers.org/assets/pdfs/reports-and-publications/banking-on-green-report.pdf
(2) EPA News: EPA Administrator Jackson and Philadelphia Mayor Nutter Sign Landmark Green City, Clean Waters Partnership Agreement.Joined by
U.S. Representative Allyson Schwartz and city and federal officials, the EPA Administrator and Philadelphia Mayor signed an agreement that represents a $2 billion investment in Philadelphia green infrastructure. Over the next 25 years, the Green City, Clean Waters partnership agreement intends to transform many of Philadelphia's traditional hardened surfaces to green areas to better manage potentially harmful rainwater runoff pollution. According to EPA, this unique federal - city partnership is designed to ensure the success of the Green City, Clean Waters Plan and to present the plan as a national model for cities embracing green stormwater infrastructure. EPA will provide assistance to the city in identifying and promoting higher performing green infrastructure designs, convening technical expertise from around the country to advance green designs and support a green design competition, and help remove barriers to innovation in the city's plan. To view the agreement visit: www.phillywatersheds.org
(3). Links to coverage and information on climate and water issues including CWN Member Natural Resources Defense Council's new report, Ready or Not: An Evaluation of State climate and Water Preparedness Planning. This seminal report documents that more than one-third of all U.S. counties will face an increased risk of water shortages as a result of global warming.
http://www.nrdc.org/water/readiness/files/Water-Readiness-issue-brief.pdf
http://www.cleanwaternetwork.org/news-events/news/qsr-magazine-state-our-water
(4) The Corps of Engineers is hosting a listening session TODAY, Friday, April 13, 2012 from 1:00- 4:00p.m. (EDT) to get feedback on their working draft paper for their Port and Inland Waterways Modernization Strategy: Options for the Future. As part of the FY12 Appropriations Bill, the Corps was directed to undertake "a report on how the Congress should address the critical need for additional port and inland waterway modernization to accommodate post-Panamax vessels." To call in:
(877)807-5706, PARTICIPANT CODE: 192308
* Web Meeting Address: https://www.webmeeting.att.com
* Meeting Number(s): 8778075706
* PARTICIPANT CODE: 192308
(5) CWN Participates in White House Women and Environment Conference.
http://www.cleanwaternetwork.org/node/1053/edit
(6) Check out all of the Clean Water events happening across the country in 2012 by clicking on Clean Water Network's Google Calendar Here: http://www.cleanwaternetwork.org/Calendar
Follow us on Twitter and Facebook too!
 
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Power of Water
Spotlight on
CWN Members/Partners
Northwest Environmental Advocates!
Northwest Environmental Advocates was created in 1969 to work against nuclear power. The group is based in Portland, Oregon. In 1988, NWEA made the environmental quality of the Columbia River a major regional issue through regional organizing and the issuance of the first-ever report on water quality of the Columbia River.
NWEA is under the helm of Nina Bell who has been NWEA's Executive Director for over 20 years. Specializing in implementation of Clean Water Act programs, she guides the organization's litigation and represents environmental interests in regional and national negotiations. She has participated in numerous advisory groups including a federal advisory committee on EPA's TMDL program. Nina has also been a longtime member and one of the most prolific contributors to the Clean Water Network, serving on the original steering committee and participating in numerous workgroups.
NWEA has been involved with and challenged many Oregon water quality standards including two lawsuits on Oregon's temperature standards, and a lawsuit to force ESA consultation on Oregon's toxic criteria. In 1990, the organization stopped a proposed dioxin-emitting pulp mill on the Columbia River through the administrative process and citizen organizing. In 1991, NWEA forced the City of Portland to commit to a 20-year plan to stop discharging over 6 billion gallons of raw sewage each year to the Willamette River and Columbia Slough. This lawsuit created national precedent that citizens can enforce narrative conditions in NPDES permits. NWEA organized for National Estuary Program status for the Lower Columbia River, in response to which Oregon and Washington created the $2.4 million Bi-State Lower Columbia River Water Quality Study, which Nina Bell co-chaired.
In terms of education, NWEA ran the Columbia/Willamette RiverWatch Program for four years. This program took people on boat tours of the Willamette and Columbia River and published two full size color environmental maps: Portland/Vancouver: Toxic Waters and Columbia River: Troubled Waters. The project entailed installing multi-lingual warning signs on highly polluted urban waters and produced a multi-lingual fish consumption brochure. Later NWEA produced some of the signs for the Anacostia Watershed group and also organized the Ancient Forest Rally & Celebration of 75,000 people in Portland.
NWEA has filed three lawsuits seeking to regulate ship discharges of ballast water under the Clean Water Act, starting with a petition to EPA in 1999. The result was a vessel general permit. They also challenged (and lost) a lawsuit over the Columbia River channel deepening project. Northwest Environmental Advocates is a true testiment to the power of grassroots action. Congratulations to Nina and her team for their commitment and amazing work over the years!
For more information on NWEA go to their website at:
www.northwestenvironmentaladvocates.org
As part of the Power of Water Campaign, CWN is regularly spotlighting the great grassroots clean water work being conducted across the country, in our news bulletins. If you have something innovative or news worthy you want to share, have reached an important milestone or are celebrating an important anniversary, by all means tell us! Please email Briana at Briana@cleanwaternetwork.org with all of the details. We would be delighted to report your group's news to the entire Network.
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