Advocacy Project: Letter to Public Official

December 7, 2009
Senator Amy Klobuchar
United States Senate
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2304

Dear Senator Klobuchar:

Safe, clean drinking water in our communities is at risk. Factories and businesses in the Great Lakes area are dumping their wastes into our freshwater resources and putting the health and safety of our families and communities in jeopardy. I ask your vote for the bill H.R. 54: Great Lakes Water Protection Act.

This bill regulates the wastes being dumped into the Great Lakes and funds programs and activities to help keep this water safe. It in a sense watches over the people sampling and checking the water, and makes sure that they are doing the job properly.

I believe this bill is extremely important to the people of Minnesota and the surrounding areas of the Great Lakes. Our families and communities depend on safe drinking water as a part of our growth and development and if this is at risk, so are our families.

If this bill passes, it can ensure the survival and flourishing of our families in this area. It will allow up to continue to live and survive this region and not have to worry about the health or safety of each other in the community. Not only will this help the people of Minnesota, but in all of the Great Lakes communities. There are many states that rely on the Great Lakes for water, even parts of Canada.

You  may know Carl Levin, a US Senator from Michigan. Michigan is also very reliant on the Great Lakes for clean water and he has fought for many years in favor of the regulation of these lakes. Please join him in the fight.

I hope that i have gotten through to you how much keeping this water clean means to myself and my community. We are a few of many people in the Great Lakes area who depend on this water for our survival. Let me know if there is anything else I can do as an individual in my community to make this bill known and passed.

Thanks again for your time, I look forward to hearing back from you!

Sincerely,

Melissa Herzig
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