Do You Choose Clean Water?
By Travis Loop
Do you choose clean water? If so, we need your voice. And the voices of your friends.
Clean water is important – for drinking, swimming, and fishing. We need it for our communities, farms, and businesses. But right now, 60 percent of our streams and millions of acres of wetlands across the country aren’t clearly protected from pollution and destruction. In fact, one in three Americans—117 million of us—get our drinking water from streams that are vulnerable. To have clean water downstream in the rivers and lakes in our neighborhoods, we need healthy headwaters upstream. That’s why we’ve proposed to strengthen protection for our water.
We hope you’ll support our clean water proposal. To help you do that, and get your friends to also voice their support, we’re using a new tool called Thunderclap; it’s like a virtual flash mob.
Here’s how it works: you agree to let Thunderclap post a one-time message on your social networks (Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr) on Monday, September 29 at 2:00 pm EDT. If 500 or more people sign up to participate, the message will be posted on everyone’s walls and feeds at the same time. But if fewer than 500 sign up, nothing happens. So it’s important to both sign up and encourage others to do so.
Here’s the message we’re asking you to let us post on your behalf: “Clean water is important to me. I want EPA to protect it for my health, my family, and my community. www.epa.gov/USwaters”
To sum up, you can participate through these two steps:
- Sign up to join the Thunderclap for Clean Water: http://thndr.it/1rUOiaB
- Share the link to the Thunderclap with your friends and followers so we get at least 500 people sharing the message:
a. Facebook
b. Twitter
c. Tumblr
Watch EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy talk about our proposal to protect clean water: http://bit.ly/1h5JgjW
Read about the proposal to protect clean water: epa.gov/uswaters
About the author: Travis Loop is the communications director for water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He chooses clean water for his kids and for surfing.
Sep 16, 2014 @ 15:57:10
Not only do I choose clean water, but I read the local country water reports. There are so many people who are in the dark when it comes to the fact the country reports just how clean the water really is. I can’t tell you how many of my friends tell me about toxic stuff in our water and when I ask them for sources or if they have the latest water report, they give me a blank stare. Shared and Twittered!
Sep 16, 2014 @ 15:59:26
Great post… your blog is one of the best! congratulations.
Sep 17, 2014 @ 15:55:23
Good work guys ! This blog is well detailed . liked it![:)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161227021151im_/http://blog.epa.gov/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png)