Website: www.communitywatercenter.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Community-Water-Center/116669441734084

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CWaterC

Location: Visalia and Sacramento

Services/Resources: Provides training to Valley clean water advocates, conducts programs that aim to improve drinking water.

The Community Water Center’s (CWC) mission is to create community-driven water solutions through organizing, education and advocacy in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

CWC works directly with a number of low-income, primarily Latino communities to address problems that range from chronic drinking water contamination to barriers to participation in local water governance. These direct services provide the foundation for both of CWC’s Programs:

• Protecting Groundwater from the Ground Up: This program aims to improve groundwater used as a source of drinking water in the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Our work focuses on the coordination and development of the AGUA coalition and its campaign for groundwater protection, particularly from sources of nitrate.
• Water Democratization: This program aims to ensure communities have a voice in water planning, policy and in decision making.
• Research: CWC is an expert source of information on community drinking water issues in the Valley.