FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ann Graham Nichols
Phone: 517-290-3962
Email: info@alexanderforcongress.com
Website: alexanderforcongress.com

East Lansing, MI - Clean Water Action has endorsed 8^th District Democratic Congressional nominee Bob Alexander. CWA is a 36-year old grassroots organization with 1.2 million members, which works “to protect America’s waters, build healthy communities and make democracy work for all of us.”

Alexander supports passage of The Clean Water Restoration Act. “For more than four decades I have been active in reversing the pollution we have created and allowed, especially in our surface water and ground water.” He has also stated that he will co-sponsor funding increases for the federal Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs, and “urge implementation of new, inexpensive techniques that are being used in other parts of the world with severe water shortages to better use of available water.”

One of Alexander’s top environmental priorities as a candidate is to maximize national efforts to conserve water needed for drinking and growing crops for food. He states, “our state and national laws must be modernized to ensure that water is used for the public good, and that ownership of a plot of land does not give its owner the right to drill and distribute water to make a profit.” He further notes that since “many parts of the nation will endure increasing shortages of water to drink, and for agriculture” he “supported the Great Lakes Compact…to preserve the quantity and quality of our fresh water.”

Alexander belongs to The Michigan Environmental Council, The national and Mid-Michigan Sierra Clubs, Clean Water Action, Michigan Conservation, The Land Conservancy, Urban Options, The Ecology Center of Ann Arbor and The Ann Arbor Recycling Center.