COMMUNITY WATER CENTER

Everyone has a right to safe, clean and affordable drinking water. Yet in California, hundreds of thousands of families go without safe drinking water every day. The Community Water Center is a non-profit, environmental justice organization based in California's San Joaquin Valley that helps build strategic, grassroots capacity to address water challenges in small, rural, low-income communities and communities of color. Since opening our doors in 2006, CWC has worked with local residents from 82 California communities (69 in the southern San Joaquin Valley) to improve access to safe, clean, and affordable water. CWC has trained over 2,674 residents as clean water advocates and provided technical assistance to over 15 local water boards struggling with how to manage efficient and accountable water systems in their communities. CWC has also served as legal counsel to a number of small, disadvantaged communities with water systems. As a result, many rural, economically disadvantaged communities in the San Joaquin Valley now have improved access to clean and affordable drinking water.