Learn About the Clean Water Act

River Network's Protection and Restoration Program focuses on helping watershed leaders understand and effectively implement the Clean Water Act, our nation’s law with the largest potential for protecting and restoring more rivers and watersheds than any other law.

The Clean Water Act is a powerful law that explicitly empowers citizens to participate in its interpretation, implementation and enforcement. But many of its strongest provisions are little understood and poorly applied. River Network helps concerned citizens identify and make the most of greatly underutilized public involvement opportunities.

Please explore the following opportunities to learn more about the power of the Act to protect and restore your local rivers, lakes, coastal waters and wetlands.

• Take the online course: this interactive course walks you through the key programs of the Act, and how to use them at home

• Order your copy of the Clean Water Act Owner's Manual: put the lessons of the course, associated reference material and more at your fingertips with this one-of-a-kind resource!

• Explore virtual training: ready to go beyond the online course? We're beefing up our online training options to give you more depth on important river protection and restoration tools (Coming soon!)

• Read the full Clean Water Act: go to the source!

• Request training: we can provide personalized, localized training ranging from a few hours to a few days to your organization

Ready to dive in deeper on Clean Water Act issues? Explore the Clean Water Act Tools area.