As California enters its third consecutive dry year, water conservation is a popular topic - television, newspapers, billboards, and radio messages are telling us to conserve water because of the drought.

Clean Water Action agrees that we should practice additional conservation during times of drought. But California's is a dry climate that is expected to become dryer still as the impacts of climate change intensify. This drought gives us an opportunity to rethink our attitudes about and our overall use of water.

Let's make it safer for all fish consumers, and let's do it sooner!

The Central Valley Regional Water Board will decide on adopting a draft clean-up plan, known as a TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load), this summer to address mercury pollution in the Delta.

The proposed plan has both positive and negative features and we need your help to ensure that we keep the beneficial aspects and correct the flaws. Specifically, Clean Water Action supports the plan's focus on methylmercury (the form that collects in living things so that people are exposed by eating highly contaminated fish).

Did you know that there are approximately 80,000 chemicals in commercial use but that in the U.S. little toxicity information is required to bring a chemical or product containing chemicals to market? In fact, regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency can only act to ban or limit a chemical's use after a severehealth or environmental problem manifests itself.