For Immediate Release:
February 19, 2001
San Diego, CA -- Donna Frye of San Diego visited Washington, D.C., last weekend to meet with members of Congress about clean water issues facing California. Frye is a member of the local clean water group, Surfers Tired of Pollution (STOP), and the San Diego Pollution Program Manager for the Center for Marine Conservation.
Frye was joined by over 190 clean water activists from 40 states in Washington, D.C., to learn more about clean water issues and to urge representatives and senators to take action in the protection and clean-up of our nation’s rivers, lakes, and beaches. STOP is a member of the Clean Water Network, an alliance of more than 1,000 groups working on cleaning up our nation’s streams, rivers, lakes, and beaches by enforcing and strengthening the Clean Water Act. STOP and other members of the Clean Water Network are calling on their legislators to enforce key provisions of the nation’s premier clean water law created to prevent and clean-up polluted rivers, lakes, and beaches.
Seventy-one percent of Americans are extremely concerned about clean water, according to a recent poll by the League of Conservation Voters. "Congress and the administration must understand that the vast majority of Americans want the Clean Water Act funded and enforced," said Eddie Scher, Director of the Clean Water Network. "In 1972 Congress promised to stop industries from polluting our rivers, lakes, and estuaries by 1985. Sixteen years later, Congress still hasn’t delivered on this promise and today 218 million Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted river, lake or beach."
