Through grassroots organizing, training, research and education, CWF protects Minnesota’s drinking water by addressing issues of safe and affordable drinking water, the health impacts of toxic and hazardous pollution, renewable energy sources and sustainable agriculture

Clean Water Fund
308 East Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Tel: 612-623-3666
Fax: 612-623-3354
mncwa@cleanwater.org

Programs

Clean Water Fund has been working in Minnesota on the health impacts of mercury pollution, collaborating with Mercury Free Minnesota and Preventing Harm Minnesota. They have discovered that Mercury moves up the food chain; Mercury is deposited in lakes where bacteria convert it to toxic methylmercury (MeHg); MeHg is taken up by tiny animals and plankton; MeHg then accumulates in the tissues of fish and other organisms; wildlife like eagles, osprey, loons, turtles, mink, otters and other fish-eaters are also affected; all Minnesota waters contaminated.