SACRAMENTO >> On Thursday, The Water Foundation launched a website that addresses California’s drinking water crisis. The website, SafeWaterForCA.org, will also be advertised on the radio around the state in areas with high numbers of contaminated water systems.
“Contaminated drinking water is an issue that matters to everyone,” Wade Crowfoot of the Water Foundation said. “Access to safe and affordable drinking water is a human right and we need to be innovative and aggressive in finding solutions. Some of these families have been without clean water for over a decade. That is not acceptable.”
As many as one million Californians are exposed to unsafe, contaminated drinking water in their homes, schools and businesses. SafeWaterForCA.org is an educational campaign bringing awareness to this drinking water crisis.
The website includes powerful testimony from individuals who have lived or are living with contaminated water, news articles, facts surrounding the drinking water crisis and polling information commissioned by the Water Foundation in January.
Recent information released by the California State Water Resources Control Board indicates that upwards of 300 public water systems throughout the state do not currently meet the safe drinking water standard for the state.
Each year in May, National Drinking Water Week calls on Americans to recognize the role drinking water plays in daily lives. The Water Foundation is a nonprofit public foundation that is transforming how water is managed so communities and natural places thrive. It is the only grantmaking foundation entirely focused on improving the way water is used and managed in the American West.
For more information on California’s drinking water crisis visit SafeWaterForCA.org.
