Sign the Petition for The Right to Clean and Healthy Waters Constitutional Amendment. Our state regulatory system fails to adequately protect us and waterways from pollution. The state has issued 23,000 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination permits, 10 percent of the nation’s total, allowing industry to pollute Florida’s waters. As of 2018, 2,440—more than half—of Florida’s 4,393 waterbodies assessed by the state have been declared “impaired.” Polluted water was the primary cause of the deaths of more than 1,101 manatees in 2021. Our health, our economy and nature depend upon clean water.

Amend the state constitution to recognize every Floridian’s fundamental right to clean and healthy waters. Fundamental rights provide the highest protection under law—above and beyond the reach of special interests and political ideologies.

The amendment can stop pollution at its source, save our springs, stop polluting Lake Okeechobee, curtail the loss of wetlands, reduce fecal bacteria contamination and save our precious wildlife.