Issues: Water

Credits

Project Director
Robbin Marks, Natural Resources Defense Council

Principal Researcher
Rebecca Knuffke, Clean Water Network

With Written Contributions and Assistance from
The Clean Water Network's Feedlot Work Group

Production Coordinator
Kathy Nemsick, Clean Water Network

Editor
Sarah Glazer

Research Assistant
Katherine Carlton

Cover design
Sally James, Cutting Edge Graphics

Electronic assembly
Carol James, NRDC

Cover photos
Clean Water Action Alliance (lagoon)
Marlene Halverson (hogs)
Chesapeake Bay Foundation (chickens)

Acknowledgments

The Clean Water Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council wish to thank The McKnight Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts for their support of our work on animal feedlot issues. The Clean Water Network is also grateful for the support of the Town Creek Foundation, The Moriah Fund, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, and the Dave and Lucile Packard Foundation for general support. NRDC gratefully acknowledges the support of Wallace Genetic Foundation, Inc., and of its 400,000 members, whose generosity helped make this report possible.

We wish to thank the reviewers of this report, Jessica Landman, Peter Lehner, Alan Metrick and Sharene Azimi of NRDC, Dan Whittle of the North Carolina Environmental Defense Fund, Bianca DeLille and Matt Freeman. This report is the result of close to 100 interviews with members of the Clean Water Network and others. The interviewees were extremely generous in contributing their time, expertise, edits, and rewrites to this report. This report would not have been possible without their help. Many other groups listed at the end of this report also provided valuable assistance. The views presented in this document do not necessarily reflect the opinions of those who were interviewed, are listed as contacts, or who helped to review it.

About the Clean Water Network

The Clean Water Network is an alliance of over 1,000 organizations that endorse its platform paper, the National Agenda for Clean Water. The Agenda outlines the need for strong clean water safeguards in order to protect public health and the environment. The Clean Water Network includes a variety of organizations representing environmentalists, family farmers, commercial fishermen, recreational anglers, surfers, boaters, faith communities, environmental justice advocates, tribes, labor unions, and civic associations.

The Clean Water Network's Feedlot Work Group is comprised of 179 organizations in 41 states who work together to improve federal policies to stop pollution from animal feeding operations. The organizations represent family farmers, rural policy, tribal, sustainable agriculture, animal welfare and environmental interests.