Clean water

If we want a greener, healthier world we need to protect our rivers, lakes and streams.

Clean water is vital to ecosystems, to our health, and our quality of life. But too many of our rivers, lakes and streams are vulnerable to pollution. This pollution, along with outdated infrastructure – like lead pipes in our schools – puts our health at risk. We need to work together to protect our waters.

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Environment Illinois 2025 Program Agenda

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Environment Illinois 2025 Program Agenda

With our supporters, Environment Illinois is celebrating nature and sharing a vision of an Illinois with clean water and air, more clean energy, healthy wildlife and more habitat that wildlife need to thrive.

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Getting the lead out, 10 years after Flint
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Clean water

Getting the lead out, 10 years after Flint

The Biden administration has taken the most significant step toward protecting our drinking water from lead since the start of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis a decade ago.

Protecting Illinois wetlands

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Protecting Illinois wetlands

Wetlands play a vital role in a healthy environment, but due to sprawl and other human activity only around 10% of Illinois’ historic wetlands remain. We’re supporting a state wetland protection program to safeguard what we have left.

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