• Buy local!! Industrial agriculture is one of the leading causes of water pollution in the United States today – so support your local farms!
• There is currently a shortfall of more than $22 billion per year between the funds available and what is needed to keep water safe for human and environmental health. The federal government has cut the main source of funding for clean water year after year. It's time to fill the funding gap with a trust fund, a dedicated funding source and sustained commitment to safe and affordable public water. Sign on to this statement to ask Congress to provide the funds needed to protect our water sources and keep our water clean and safe: Sign On »
• Choose landscaping plants with low water requirements.

Bottled water is the poster child for how profit-hungry corporations spend millions to convince consumers to buy an environmentally damaging product they don’t need. It’s a good entry point for talking about how some of these same corporations and many others are wasting and polluting water to produce food that’s contaminated with agricultural chemicals, as well as ingredients that make us fat and sick.

First, let me say, I’m not blaming farmers, who are held hostage by a food system that benefits the large corporations that control the way our food is produced and marketed. A tiny cabal of agribusinesses and food manufacturers have a stranglehold on every link of the food chain.
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