Motto	Protecting America's Water Resources
Established	1992
Exec. Dir.	Natalie Roy
Headquarters	Washington, DC, USA United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Membership	1,200 Organizations
Status	501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Homepage	www.cleanwaternetwork.org/

The Clean Water Network (CWN) is an American coalition of more than 1,200 local, state and national non-profit

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 interest groups

Advocacy group

Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the development of political and social systems...

 coordinating to promote water health, safety, and quality interests in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. CWN was formed in 1992 as a project of the National Resources Defense Council. The primary functions of CWN are to coordinate a variety of public interest organizations on clean water issues so that these groups may combine resources and advocate together, and to "safeguard water quality for future generations by working to defend, strengthen and implement the Clean Water Act and other key federal and state legislation impacting water." CWN's current policy priority is Senator Russ Feingold

Russ Feingold

Russell Dana "Russ" Feingold is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He served as a Democratic party member of the U.S. Senate from 1993 to 2011. From 1983 to 1993, Feingold was a Wisconsin State Senator representing the 27th District.He is a recipient of the John F...

's S.787, dubbed the "Clean Water Restoration Act", which seeks to remove the "navigable" clause from the original Clean Water Act, a term that has been the subject of several controversial recent United States Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...

 decisions including SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers (2001) and Rapanos v. United States

Rapanos v. United States

Rapanos v. United States, 547 U.S. 715 , was a United States Supreme Court case challenging federal jurisdiction to regulate isolated wetlands under the Clean Water Act. It was the first major environmental case heard by the newly appointed Chief Justice, John Roberts and Associate Justice, Samuel...

(2006).