Support Clean Drinking Water in the Budget

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Support Clean Drinking Water in the Budget

Dear [Decision Maker],

From high levels of lead found in children, due in part to the large amounts of corroded lead in pipes for drinking water, to people of all ages suffering illnesses caused by contaminants in manure, PFAS, and other sources entering our groundwater, we recognize water pollution problems that cannot be ignored.

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As a person of faith and your constituent, I urge you to strongly support the funding to improve Wisconsin's drinking water in the proposed state budget.  Please especially back the following:

1. Utilizing $70 million in bonding to replace lead pipes and manage manure is essential to improving Wisconsin's water quality.

2. Increasing the Department of Natural Resource's (DNR's) staff with five new positions to monitor pollution from concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO's) is basic to helping us protect our drinking water.  Increased fees from CAFO's to pay for the positions would bring CAFOs fees more in-line with what they pay in other Midwestern states.

We are encouraged by bipartisan efforts:  Governor Evers' decision to place a strong focus on water in 2019 and the initiatives of Speaker Robin Voss and the legislature to form the Speaker's Water Quality Task Force.  Protecting Wisconsin's water is an act of caring for God's creation and protecting those who are most vulnerable as well as all of our citizens.

Please help continue bipartisan efforts to protect our drinking water.

"You make springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills... " Psalm 104:10

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