FREE EVENT IN BERKELEY! Hey friends, come join us at the Brower Center for a screning of this great documentary showing how just making a few changes in your habits can make a huge impact on your microplastic ingestion.

Our Silver Lining award winner this year is the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. Their work at the port to clean up our air and water from the pollutants - especially from the steel industry - shows us that there is power in caring for our local communities. Join us tomorrow night! cleanwater.org/events/making…

Our Ear to the Ground is a woman who has been fighting shoulder to shoulder with Clean Water Fund since we opened our California office in April of 1990. Ruth Abbe is also a critical ally to our ReThink program in our work in San Francisco. We know that if there is anything happening in the world of reuse, Ruth will know! Join us Thursday night to congratulate Ruth in person! cleanwater.org/events/making…

This year our Takes the Heat awardee is our very own Attorney General, Rob Bonta! The AG's Community Outreach Manager, Tong Thao, will be on hand to accept the award. Rob has taken on the oil and gas industry and is currently holding chemical companies accountable for the damage they have caused related to PFAS. We appreciate his hard work and look forward to supporting his efforts in any way we can. Get your ticket today! cleanwater.org/events/making…

We are excited to announce this year’s Making Waves Online Auction is LIVE! We have some fun items online, and we hope you check them out before our 3rd Annual Clean Water event on Thursday, June 25th! We still have a few items up our sleeve for those of you who can be there in person. We will add those to the site over the next week, so please keep checking in and see if anything entices you to join us in person. cleanwater.org/events/making…

Celebrated today in the Northern Hemisphere, Beltane is a Celtic festival marking the peak of spring and the arrival of summer. We would like to take a moment to pause and reflect on how integral our water is to all life on earth. We commit ourselves to continuing the fight for clean water for all.

The “heat dome” enveloping California over the next week will rapidly melt our remaining snow cover – an increasingly common occurrence as temperatures increase. Read more about the link between high temperatures and groundwater sustainability in this week’s blog post - cleanwater.org/2026/03/11/wh…. Happy #CAgroundwaterAwarenessWeek!

Did you know that groundwater is an important source of water for our rivers and streams? In a healthy ecosystem, groundwater recharged in the winter is released slowly during the summer, providing cool water needed to sustain instream flows and fish populations. Happy #CAgroundwaterAwarenessWeek!

Our colleague, Judith Enck, wrote an amazing book about our plastic problem. She was recently featured on KQED in the Bay Area and you can listen here: kqed.org/forum/2010101912372…

California Clean Water in Action! On Saturday many of our staff members joined the second No Kings rally, representing in Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento.

Clean Water Action is deeply disappointed that Governor Newsom chose to veto SB 682 (Senator Ben Allen) and AB 823 (Assemblymember Tasha Boerner). It is really a big step backwards for California's people and environment, and demonstrates the power of one industry to mislead yet succeed. Read our full press release here: cleanwater.org/releases/gove…

Thank you @BenAllenCA and our partners at @BCPPartners for sharing this article.

Pencil us in! Let's kick off the end-of-year fundraising season together.

Read the full article here: tinyurl.com/NYT-Cookware

Clean Water Action remains a strong advocate for clean up of SB 131 tinyurl.com/CWA-SB131

Thank you @asmtasha for your leadership. We look forward to @CAgovernor signing this important bill before ratepayers are saddled with the costs of microbeads in drinking water. @GavinNewsom