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The alert below comes from CT Fund for the Environment, one of the League's coalition partners. We hope that you will take action via phone or email. 

Though Connecticut is a relatively water-rich state, we must still plan carefully and use our resources wisely to make sure there is enough water available for human needs and enough to keep our rivers healthy and flowing. State agencies, environmental advocates and the water industry have been working together to create regulations that ensure that balance, but nowSB 1020 threatens to undo that work. 


1.  Please call or email the Senate leadership today: 
  • Sen. Don Williams, President Pro Tempore    800-842-1420   email 
  • Sen. Martin Looney, Senate Majority Leader   800-842-1420   email

Tell them:  "Please make sure that SB 1020, AAC Water Resources and Economic Development, gets sent to the Environment Committee. As the committee charged with considering Connecticut's environmental health and natural resources, they should have a chance to address the bill.

Please use your leadership to see that this bill is stopped. It would render streamflow protection meaningless and threatens the progress being made on revised regulations."


2.  Then please call these leaders of the Environment Committee:
  Sen. Ed Meyer, co-chair      800-842-1420   email
  Rep. Dick Roy, co-chair       800-842-8267   email
  Rep. Clark Chapin, ranking   800-842-1423   email

And any of your own legislators who may be on the committee.

Tell them:  "Please stop SB 1020, AAC Water Resources and Economic Development. Stakeholders are already working together on a balanced approach that can get the support of all parties. This bill threatens that process.

This bill would render the idea of streamflow protection meaningless by including a laundry list of poorly-defined exceptions that could prioritize industrial and municipal uses over environmental needs, even when there's plenty of water to go around. Currently 1 in 8 Connecticut rivers are faced with inadequate flow. We can and must make sure our rivers have enough water to sustain fish and other life, while planning for the needs of our communities."