Guaranteeing Clean Water Is Easy, Cheap

Margaret Miner, CTLCV Director and Executive Director of Rivers Alliance of Connecticut, writes in Sunday’s Hartford Courant that buffers of natural vegetation (trees, shrubs and grasses) at the right scale are simple, cheap solutions for protecting streams and aquifers from floods of unclean water.

But opponents of a bill to protect river buffers protest that the state's economy depends on people being allowed to build and clear-cut right to water's edge.

Read Miner’s Letter to the Editor here.