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Defending the West's Water

WELC's Water work

Clean water and healthy watersheds are essential to life. Like all western natural resources, water has been polluted, overused, and misappropriated. Toxic chemicals threaten the health of people and have rendered certain waters and lands in the West unfit for life. Rapidly sprawling urban areas, the commercial exploitation of water resources, and the unrestrained waste and destruction of watersheds represent critical threats to the availability and cleanliness of western water.

Protecting communities and habitats from the devastating effects of LNG terminals and pipelines: In the rush to exploit interest in new "alternative" energy development, Oregon has been targeted for the development of three liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals along the coast and nearly a thousand miles of gas pipelines that would crisscross the state.
Protecting Water Resources in New Mexico Roadless Areas & Wilderness through Outstanding National Resource Waters Designation: The Western Environmental Law Center is representing a coalition of conservation groups working to protect water resources in New Mexico’s Roadless Areas and Wilderness by designating their waters as Outstanding National Resource Waters, the highest form of protection under the federal Clean Water Act.
Protecting Rural Nevada's Groundwater Resources: The Western Environmental Law Center is representing a broad coalition of citizens’ groups, rural governmental entities, and individuals in their fight to keep the Southern Nevada Water Authority from taking all available groundwater from rural eastern Nevada and western Utah, building a massive 200-mile pipeline project, and pumping millions of gallons of water each year to feed Las Vegas’s uncontrolled growth.
Cleaning up Contamination at the Los Alamos National Laboratories: The Western Environmental Law Center recently filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of nine New Mexico community organizations and two individuals. Click above for more details.
Defending Communities and Waterways Against Aerial Spraying: In the spring of 2003, the Western Environmental Law Center helped a local organic dairy farmer stop aerial spraying and curtail truck spraying for adult mosquitoes in Gem County, Idaho.

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