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                          NEWS RELEASE

May 30, 1995                       Contact: Brian Jones(415)362-3040
For Immediate Release                      Joe Nation (415)453-5086

         CAMPAIGN FOR SAFE AND AFFORDABLE DRINKING WATER
                TO BE KICKED OFF IN MARIN COUNTY

 Clean Water Action to Introduce "1st in the Nation" Resolution
                at May 31 Meeting of Water Board

Clean Water Action, a grassroots environmental organization with 70,000 members in
California and over 700,000 nationwide, today announced plans to introduce a resolution
calling for stronger protections for drinking water at the May 31 meeting of the Marin
County Water Board.  The Board will be the first in the nation to vote on the resolution,
which will be introduced at other water boards throughout the country by the Campaign for
Safe and Affordable Drinking Water - a national coalition of nearly 300 public health,
environmental, religious, labor and social justice organizations.

Joe Nation, President of the Marin Municipal Water District Board of Directors stated, "I
want to make it clear to Congress and our customers that we want strong standards which
will guarantee strong & safe drinking water. The passage of the resolution will in many cases
do just that."

The resolution calls for a strong Safe Drinking Water Act, including testing and reporting
requirements for Cryptosporidium, the bacteria which caused 400,000 people to get sick and
over 100 to die in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1993.  The resolution also calls for making the
largest polluters pay for cleaning up polluted drinking water sources and for giving
consumers a greater right to know about contaminants in their drinking water.

The Safe Drinking Water Act, first passed in 1974, sets minimum testing and reporting
requirements for 84 waterborne contaminants.  Although Center for Diseases Control studies
estimate nearly one million people are made sick from their drinking water each year, many
in Congress are pushing legislation to drastically weaken the currently inadequate law.

"We applaud those on the Marin Municipal Water District who are taking a stand against
those members of Congress who are working to lower health and safety standards for our
drinking water", said Brian Jones of California Clean Water Action.
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