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Tell Congress to Keep Sewage Out of Our Drinking Water!
Target: The U.S. CongressSponsored by: League of Conservation Voters
Two phrases you never want to see in the same sentence: drinking water and "sewage blending." And yet, that's the Bush Administration's new plan for your water supply!
Incredibly, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to relax restrictions on dumping sewage into our waterways. Their plan would allow water treatment facilities to release sewage filled with human wastes, toxins, bacteria, viruses, parasites and other pollutants into our drinking water.
"Sewage blending" poses a serious threat to our health and our communities. Sewage that has not been fully treated carries diseases such as cholera, hepatitis, respiratory infections, and others which can be life threatening for those with weakened immune systems.
In addition to the health hazards, sewage dumping will have adverse, long-term environmental and economic consequences. Sewage in our waterways forces beach closings, increases the cost of drinking water filtration, damages coral reefs, shuts down shellfish beds, and robs the water of oxygen that fish need to breathe.
This proposal is so outrageous, we've got to get EVERYONE to take action to defeat it. Urge Congress to support the Save Our Waters from Sewage Act (H.R. 1126) to protect our families, children and communities from unsafe drinking water!
A vote on this bill could come as soon as May 19th, so please act today! Your help is critical to LCV as it works to protect our families from unsafe drinking water and to shape a pro-environment Congress and White House.
Incredibly, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to relax restrictions on dumping sewage into our waterways. Their plan would allow water treatment facilities to release sewage filled with human wastes, toxins, bacteria, viruses, parasites and other pollutants into our drinking water.
"Sewage blending" poses a serious threat to our health and our communities. Sewage that has not been fully treated carries diseases such as cholera, hepatitis, respiratory infections, and others which can be life threatening for those with weakened immune systems.
In addition to the health hazards, sewage dumping will have adverse, long-term environmental and economic consequences. Sewage in our waterways forces beach closings, increases the cost of drinking water filtration, damages coral reefs, shuts down shellfish beds, and robs the water of oxygen that fish need to breathe.
This proposal is so outrageous, we've got to get EVERYONE to take action to defeat it. Urge Congress to support the Save Our Waters from Sewage Act (H.R. 1126) to protect our families, children and communities from unsafe drinking water!
A vote on this bill could come as soon as May 19th, so please act today! Your help is critical to LCV as it works to protect our families from unsafe drinking water and to shape a pro-environment Congress and White House.
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We signed the “Tell Congress to Keep Sewage Out of Our Drinking Water!” petition!
# 17,500:
2:11 pm PDT, Apr 14,
Miriam Sytsma, Arizona
# 17,499:
10:28 am PDT, Apr 14,
Abby Sanderson, South Dakota
# 17,498:
9:32 am PDT, Apr 14,
Amy Saxton, Georgia
that is just downright nasty...no wonder tons of people get sick from water contaminations. Which is why I Drink bottle water and use water filters pitchers when I drink tea or make lemonade...just ewwwww!!!!!
that is just downright nasty...no wonder tons of people get sick from water contaminations. Which is why I Drink bottle water and use water filters pitchers when I drink tea or make lemonade...just ewwwww!!!!!
# 17,497:
2:16 pm PDT, Apr 13,
Melissa Burchfield, Florida
# 17,496:
8:32 pm PDT, Apr 12,
Maggie Dorn, Michigan
# 17,495:
7:37 am PDT, Apr 12,
Joanna Futrell, Rhode Island
Keep the sewage out of our water!!!! I was also horrified to learn their are laws allowing labs and hospitals to dump BLOOD in the sewage system!!! This is not safe!!!
Keep the sewage out of our water!!!! I was also horrified to learn their are laws allowing labs and hospitals to dump BLOOD in the sewage system!!! This is not safe!!!
# 17,494:
8:52 pm PDT, Apr 11,
Irene Polanco, New York
# 17,493:
4:31 pm PDT, Apr 11,
Ed De Rueda, California
Plague is not a pretty word and neither is the impact upon our health system if this horrendously stupid plan is enacted.
Plague is not a pretty word and neither is the impact upon our health system if this horrendously stupid plan is enacted.
# 17,492:
2:23 pm PDT, Apr 11,
Nicole Joslin, California
# 17,491:
10:27 am PDT, Apr 11,
Kristin Hulett, California
# 17,490:
8:15 am PDT, Apr 11,
Nicky Elizabeth, Maine
# 17,489:
5:06 am PDT, Apr 11,
BARBARA DUNBAR, North Carolina
this is the water we drink and shower with ,clean our clothes, and wash the children in, Now do you want to really drink sewage
this is the water we drink and shower with ,clean our clothes, and wash the children in, Now do you want to really drink sewage
# 17,488:
9:34 pm PDT, Apr 10,
Karen VanRavenswaay, New Jersey
# 17,487:
5:39 pm PDT, Apr 10,
Jessica Carter, Kentucky
# 17,486:
3:05 pm PDT, Apr 10,
Crystal Goris, New York
# 17,485:
2:30 pm PDT, Apr 10,
Heather Hintz, Colorado
# 17,484:
1:48 pm PDT, Apr 10,
Aviva Moster, New York
# 17,483:
1:17 pm PDT, Apr 10,
DENA HARRIS, Georgia
# 17,482:
12:17 pm PDT, Apr 10,
Anna Ziolkowska, Poland
# 17,481:
10:41 am PDT, Apr 10,
Idy Diaw, Ohio
# 17,480:
8:50 am PDT, Apr 10,
Anonymous Anoymous, South Carolina
Keep Sewage out of our drinking water!
Keep Sewage out of our drinking water!
# 17,479:
9:41 pm PDT, Apr 9,
Micah Vitale, Missouri
# 17,478:
4:16 pm PDT, Apr 9,
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# 17,477:
5:37 am PDT, Apr 9,
Robert Jones, Pennsylvania
# 17,476:
12:03 am PDT, Apr 9,
Rebecca Francilo, Michigan
# 17,475:
1:06 pm PDT, Apr 8,
Cheyenne Marie, California
# 17,474:
11:40 am PDT, Apr 8,
Sara Stock, Iowa
# 17,473:
11:14 am PDT, Apr 8,
Name not displayed, North Carolina
# 17,472:
10:18 am PDT, Apr 8,
Ana Waxer, Michigan
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9:30 am PDT, Apr 8,
Name not displayed, Colorado
# 17,470:
8:57 am PDT, Apr 8,
April Bowen, Colorado
# 17,469:
5:03 am PDT, Apr 8,
Carrie Zeigler, Ohio
# 17,468:
3:07 pm PDT, Apr 7,
Marlee Watt, Arkansas
# 17,467:
7:48 am PDT, Apr 7,
Keith Meyn, New York
# 17,466:
3:14 am PDT, Apr 7,
Mariluz Hernandez, Florida
please do'nt risk our life like that. I think that before you make plans to help other countries you have to deal with the need of us your own people first. I'm drinking that water my children are drinking it too. How can this be possible? you have money to help other countries START WITH US FIRST, THE PEOPLE THAT GOT YOU WHERE YOU ARE AT.
please do'nt risk our life like that. I think that before you make plans to help other countries you have to deal with the need of us your own people first. I'm drinking that water my children are drinking it too. How can this be possible? you have money to help other countries START WITH US FIRST, THE PEOPLE THAT GOT YOU WHERE YOU ARE AT.
# 17,465:
11:56 pm PDT, Apr 6,
Name not displayed, California
# 17,464:
9:39 pm PDT, Apr 6,
Joseline Gomez, California
# 17,463:
8:27 pm PDT, Apr 6,
Emily R, Canada
# 17,462:
11:37 am PDT, Apr 6,
Lori La Clare, Canada
*sigh* I really can't stand stupid. It's just common sense to keep sewage out of the drinking water. This petition should even have to exist. Pathetic. C'mon congress, brain up!
*sigh* I really can't stand stupid. It's just common sense to keep sewage out of the drinking water. This petition should even have to exist. Pathetic. C'mon congress, brain up!
# 17,461:
4:48 am PDT, Apr 6,
Jimmy Jones, Louisiana
# 17,460:
7:34 pm PDT, Apr 5,
Carole Faubert, Ohio
Please keep our water clean and healthy for our families. Congress members should be protecting their constituents not making them ill.
Please keep our water clean and healthy for our families. Congress members should be protecting their constituents not making them ill.
# 17,459:
6:42 pm PDT, Apr 5,
Kellie Noffsinger, California
# 17,458:
4:10 pm PDT, Apr 5,
Stephanie Ardizone, California
# 17,457:
2:10 pm PDT, Apr 5,
Jacqueline Raffle, New York
# 17,456:
1:50 pm PDT, Apr 5,
Patty June Chappell- Alsay, California
It is time for us to fire President Bush because it has been outgreageous and faraway from the job he is supposed to be doing that are good for us but he has been focus on destructive and add things that are poorly for our health and sounds like contorlling us with bad stuffs to cause us sick and failing with our promation to make lives good. Something wrong with the picture. Dont you all agree that he needs to be elimated? and I strongly urge you to take the action to stop that plan. It is volience to our health FDA law to let sewage to get in clean water bottled waters. It is so wrong! I think Bush is not human or what is he? We need to be awake! and stop that action.
It is time for us to fire President Bush because it has been outgreageous and faraway from the job he is supposed to be doing that are good for us but he has been focus on destructive and add things that are poorly for our health and sounds like contorlling us with bad stuffs to cause us sick and failing with our promation to make lives good. Something wrong with the picture. Dont you all agree that he needs to be elimated? and I strongly urge you to take the action to stop that plan. It is volience to our health FDA law to let sewage to get in clean water bottled waters. It is so wrong! I think Bush is not human or what is he? We need to be awake! and stop that action.
# 17,455:
9:00 am PDT, Apr 5,
Zorina Huestis, California
# 17,454:
4:13 am PDT, Apr 5,
TK Farley, North Carolina
# 17,453:
6:30 pm PDT, Apr 4,
Gordon Andrews, California
# 17,452:
4:31 pm PDT, Apr 4,
Wendy Audette, Georgia
Good Grief! Have we become a third world country and I missed the announcement? This is pathetic!!!
Good Grief! Have we become a third world country and I missed the announcement? This is pathetic!!!
# 17,451:
3:47 pm PDT, Apr 4,
Alan G Smolcic, Illinois
help protect public drinking water from deadly hazardous waste that can cause disease and plagues..
help protect public drinking water from deadly hazardous waste that can cause disease and plagues..