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Protecting Water Quality Around Your Home

The Alliance for the Great Lakes's Water Quality Program is dedicated to clean water that protects the health of people, fish and wildlife of the Great Lakes by:

• Reducing sewage overflows to help keep our beaches healthy.
• Controling endocrine disrupting chemicals like pharmaceutical pollutants and other emerging threats such as nanotechnology.
• Reducing stormwater runoff pollution to preserve and restore coastal health.
• Reducing pollution from key industrial facilities like petroleum refineries. 

We need to ensure that local, state and federal agencies use their authority to restore and protect water quality. You, as a citizen, however, have the most important role to play in ensuring the protection of public and ecological health. The Alliance helps in these efforts by:

• Collaborating with agencies, municipalities and businesses wherever possible in developing strong policies, standards, laws and other actions.
• Demanding accountability through agency oversight and legal enforcement wherever necessary.
• Educating the public to participate in these and other important water quality decisions affecting its health.