Ducks Unlimited Clean Water Action Center
How Clean Water affects Duck Hunters
Waterfowlers are a group that stands to lose a lot if Clean Water Act protections aren't restored to more than 20 million acres of isolated wetlands. Learn more about Why Clean Water Matters to Duck Hunters.
Wildfowl magazine's Chris Madson also sees the danger to sportsmen from weakened clean water protections - saying that “Waterfowlers can't afford to lose another acre of marsh. We need to restore the authority the Corps of Engineers and EPA have exercised over the past 30 years.”
Read the rest of his article here
Sportsmen Speak Out for Clean Water
Ducks Unlimited members and other sportsmen had to say when a columnist misrepresented the need for clean water:
Millions of acres of waterfowl habitat at risk
Millions of acres of wetlands are in danger of being polluted or drained because they are considered "geographically isolated"—even though these areas are critical for America's drinking water and waterfowl habitat.
Ducks Unlimited is supporting efforts to protect these wetlands for people and waterfowl, ensuring that these habitats aren't lost to us permanently.
Ducks Unlimited needs your help to secure these wetlands now and forever, and protect them from pollutants and destruction.
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When Clean Water Act protections were removed from "isolated" wetlands in 2001, critical waterfowl habitat, especially breeding ground in the Prairie Pothole Region, were threatened. Ducks Unlimited's conservation staff explains why no wetland is truly isolated from the surrounding ecosystems and why our support is essential to restore protections for waterfowl habitat. |
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Farmers Standing up for Clean Water
Farmers from across the country are uniting in behind the Clean Water Restoration Act to protect their livelihoods and the food on America's tables.
Read their stories |
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Field & Stream, the world's leading outdoor magazine, recently endorsed the Clean Water Restoration Act as one of the top five priorities for sportsmen. Read more |
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Clean Water by the Numbers
- 98%: Percentage of waters of the United States not truly navigable as defined by the most recent CWA guidance
- 2: The number of 500-year floods in the last 15 years in the Midwest. Loss of wetlands only makes these types of floods more common
- 500: The approximate number of EPA enforcement cases since July 2006 negatively affected by the confusion surrounding the current CWA guidance
- 50%-90%: The number of prairie potholes in some areas that have already been lost or severely degraded
- 80,000: The number of acres of wetlands the United States continues to lose every year
- 470: Tons, in millions, of soil lost in the most recent floods. Taxpayers will foot the bill to dredge soil and sediment from river systems
