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works to ensure the ood, water and fsh we
consume is sae, accessible and sustainably
produced. So that we can all enjoy and trust in
what we eat and drink, we help people take
charge o where their ood comes rom; keep
clean, aordable, public tap water owing
reely to our homes; protect the environmental
quality o oceans; work to ensure that the
government does its job protecting citizensand educate about the importance o keeping
the global commons our shared resources
under public control. We envision a world where
all people have access to enough aordable,
healthy and wholesome ood and clean water
to meet their basic needs a world in which
governments are accountable to their citizens
and manage essential resources sustainably.
FOOD&WATERWATCH
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F O O D & W AT E R W A T C H A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 11
A Message rom Wenonah Hauer, Execuive Direcor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Board o Direcors and Direcors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Programmaic Aciviies and Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Organizing: Efectively Reaching Our Constituents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Food Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Water Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Fish Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Financials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
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Its not always easyo achieve change in Washingon,
and much o he change ha
does happen is characerized by
compromises and hal-measures.
Bu a Food & Waer Wach,
weve saked ou uncompromising posiions on our
mos essenial resources. A growing membership
base and our inancial independence rom corpo-rae and governmen ineress have helped us do
he vial work o keep indusry on is oes and o
keep he public ineres a he oreron o policy
decisions.
2011 was an exremely busy and producive year
or Food & Waer Wach as we expanded our reach
hrough he remendous growh o our acivis
base. We are very proud o he voluneer leader-
ship program ha we piloed his year, which willleverage our saf resources and help us implemen
srong campaigns o change he ood sysem and
proec waer resources. Here are jus a ew o our
organizaional successes in 2011:
We advocaed or and won increases in he
budges or ood saey a boh he U.S. Depar-
men o Agriculure (USDA) and he Food and
Drug Adminisraion (FDA).
We campaigned or large reailers o sop ac-
ceping geneically engineered (GE) swee corn,
resuling in Whole Foods, Trader Joes and
General Mills afirming ha hey will no sell he
produc.
Our work on Capiol Hill helped o derail he
secre Farm Bill process when he super commi-
ee collapsed a he end o he year.
We shined a media spoligh on a myriad o
criical ood issues including arsenic in apple
juice, which is helping spread our message and
reinorcing our argumens in avor o more ro-
bus ood saey programs.
We successully organized o ge Congress o
sop he approval o GE salmon.
We won a moraorium agains acory ish arm-
ing in Hawaii.
We doubled he number o college campuses
where we worked wih suden voluneers o
Take Back he Tap and reduce he use o botled
waer.
Our efors o sop hydraulic racuring, or rack-
ing, helped lead o a delay in he voe by he
Delaware River Basin Commission, which would
have allowed racking in he waershed ha pro-
vides waer or more han 15 million people.
Our sellar eam o organizers and policy proes-
sionals, ampliied by ciizen grassroos acion and
growing inancial suppor rom our members,
helped ensure hese many vicories, and were on
rack or many, many more in 2012. Well keep
ighing or wha we wan clean, sae and aford-able ood and waer no jus he bes we can ge.
Dr Frid,
A M E S S A G E F R O M W E N O N A H H A U T E R , E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R
Wenonah Hauer
Executive Director
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Organizing: EfectivelyReaching Our Constituents
Local CoordinatorsIn 2011, we developed and implemened an acivis
leadership program our Local Coordinaor Program
and we now have Local Coordinaors in 50 locaions
hroughou he counry.
We believe widespread ciizen involvemen is criical or
holding governmens accounable o heir consiuens
and or creaing policies ha ensure sae, healhy ood
and clean waer. In order o reach our program goals, we
are building a large grassroos movemen.
To increase civic engagemen around criical ood and
waer issues, we use a communiy-organizing model
ha enails Food & Waer Wach saf ideniying,
culivaing and working wih a nework o rained
voluneer leaders who in urn work deeply in heir own
communiies o educae and engage people around ood
and waer issues. Our goal is o build acivis neworks
suppored in communiies ha are acively engaging wi
policymakers and involved in shaping ood and waer
policy decisions.
To efecively develop hese neworks, Food & Waer
Wach works direcly wih communiy leaders and
emerging aciviss, providing hem wih raining and
maerials, and hen works wih hem o develop and
implemen heir own communiy-based plans around
diferen waer and ood issues.
Online Activists
In odays world, organizing hrough social media and
oher online vehicles is a key componen o successul
advocacy campaigns. In our relaively shor exisence,
Food & Waer Wach has buil an acive email lis o mor
han 290,000 names. Using he web, Food & Waer Wac
is developing, culivaing and organizing virual volunee
acivis neworks. These neworks will be acivaed o
ake online acions, as well as provide communicaion
ools ha can enhance on-he-ground efors.
P R O G R A M M A T I C A C T I V I T I E S A N D C A M P A I G N S
FOOD & WATER WATCH
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Maude Barlow
CHAIR
Wenonah HauterEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rudol Amenga-EtegoFINANCE COMMITTEE
Dennis KeeneyGOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
Kelsie Sue KerrFINANCE COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Peredo BeltrnFINANCE COMMITTEE
Mary RicciTREASURER
Sue RomeSECRETARY
Wenonah HauterEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Lane BrooksCHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Zach CorriganFISH PROGRAM INTERIM DIRECTOR
Doug LakeyDEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Patty LoveraASSISTANT DIRECTOR
AND FOOD PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Darcey OCallaghanINTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR
Darcey RakestrawCOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Mark SchlosbergORGANIZING DIRECTOR
Emily WurthWATER PROGRAM DIRECTOR
DIRECTORS
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Our online acivis lis grew by more han 100,000 people
in 2011. Over he course o 2011, hese online supporers
ook nearly 1 million acions o pressure corporaions and
local, sae and naional legislaors on diferen ood and
waer issues.
Food ProgramOur Food Program works o improve ood saey and
ood labeling so ha consumers know wha heyre
buying. The program also works o promoe susainable
agriculure and curail acory arming. Our Food
Program organizers work across he counry o engage
he public in ood policy.
Protecting Small and Medium-Sized Farmers
In 2011, Food & Waer Wach pressured he Obamaadminisraion o inalize he GIPSA rule (named or he
Grain Inspecion Packers and Sockyards Adminisraion
o he USDA). The rule, which we call he air livesock
markeing rule, was required in he 2008 Farm Bill and
would proec small and medium-sized armers who
raise catle, hogs and chickens by requiring he USDA o
enorce a law called he Packers and Sockyards Ac. This
Ac has been on he books since 1921, bu he USDA has
never enorced is prohibiion on unair conracs and
discriminaory pracices agains armers and ranchers.
Aer a call-in day ha we organized o generae pressure
on he Whie House o implemen GIPSA, he domesic
policy saf in he Whie House indicaed ha hey had
received our message abou suppor or inalizing
he rule. Unorunaely, he mea indusry unleashed
a barrage o lobbying and media messaging ying he
proposed GIPSA rule in wih he overall discussion o
job killing regulaions, and a he end o 2011, heir
efors were largely successul. Aer more han a year
o bullying he Obama adminisraion and members o
Congress, he proposed rule was drasically sripped
down o jus a racion o he provisions ha were
originally proposed.
In addiion o he batles over he proposed livesock-
markeing rule, we coninued o build momenum o ge
more discussion o compeiion issues in he nex Farm
Bill.
Fighting Factory Farms
Groundwater in New Mexico
During he legislaive session, which ran rom mid-
January o mid-March, we worked wih our coaliionparners o successully deea hree bills ha sough o
allow he indusrialized dairy acory arms o pollue
New Mexicos groundwaer wihou resricions. This bill
would have undone he regulaions ha were passed las
year. Working in close coordinaion wih our coaliion
parners, we were able o coordinae phone calls, emails,
lobby visis and esimony o sop each o hese bills.
Stopping the Use o Arsenic
in Chicken Feed in Maryland
One o he pillars o he acory arm model is he
widespread and inensive use o anibioics, pesicides
and oher oxics in growing our ood and raising he
livesock we consume. In 2011, we ough one o hese
pillars by aking on he poulry indusry and is use
o arsenic in chicken eed in he sae o Maryland,
advocaing in suppor o a bill ha would have banned
he use o his poisonous chemical in chicken eed.
Animal Identifcation
In he all, we had o weigh in once again on a
proposal ha could prove oo burdensome or small
livesock producers. During he summer o 2011, he
USDA released a new version o a program o creae
ideniicaion and racking or livesock. We worked wih
a coaliion o small arm groups and submited 2,339
commens asking or proecion o small armers and
opposing he new animal ID rule.
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Food Saety
Keeping E. ColiOut o Ground Bee
While i will ake a commited movemen o organized
people and grassroos groups o ge he changes we
really wan, we are pleased ha every now and hen
we are able o win a vicory in his dificul poliical
environmen. Such was he case when, despie inense
lobbying rom he mea indusry, he USDA responded
o our pressure and published a noice in Sepember
ha will designae six addiional srains oE. colias
adulerans in ground bee. These six srains 026, 045,
0111, 0103, 0121 and 0145 have long been ideniied
by he Ceners or Disease Conrol (CDC) as causes or
oodborne illness oubreaks in he Unied Saes. The
new policy will ake efec on March 5, 2012.
Arsenic in Apple JuiceThis year, we called on he FDA o ake long overdue
acion on conaminaion o apple juice wih heavy meals
such as arsenic. We joined he Empire Sae Consumer
Projec (an organizaion dedicaed o reducing he use
o pesicides and oher chemicals oxic o human and
environmenal healh) in sending a leter o he agency
ha conained new daa revealing levels o arsenic
conaminaion in one juice sample ha were more
han ive imes higher han wha he Environmenal
Proecion Agency would allow in drinking waer.
Throughou he all, we coordinaed wih Consumers
Union on a large-scale projec o do independen esing
o apple and oher juices, which conirmed he resuls
ound by he Empire Sae Consumer Projec, and
provided even more oxicology conex or he dangers
o any amoun o arsenic exposure. Shorly aer ha
aricle was released, he FDA released daa i had never
made public beore, which clariied many o he agencys
previous saemens abou some ypes o arsenic being
harmless. ABC News, which had originally regurgiaed
he FDAs message ha arsenic was no a problem, did
a ollow-up sory in which heir medical corresponden
said he el berayed by he FDA.
Two-hirds o apple juice ha Americans consume
more han 400 million gallons annually comes rom
China. This new daa on apple juice comes on he heels
o a repor by Food & Waer Wach ha deailed Chinas
errible saey record or ood shipped o he Unied
Saes.
Genetically Engineered Crops
Walmart/GE Sweet Corn
Monsanos geneically engineered (GE) swee corn
variey lew hrough he approval process because
i combines wo geneically engineered rais ha
were approved in 2005 and 2008. The USDA does no
independen esing o GE crops, and he sacked
combinaion o hese rais or herbicide resisance and
pesicide producion has never been hrough a saey
evaluaion o any kind. These rais have never been
engineered ino a ood ha will be consumed direcly by
people, bu Monsano hoped ha armers would grow
he companys GE swee corn on 250,000 acres in 2012,
which is roughly 40 percen o he swee corn marke
and i wouldn have o be labeled in he supermarke.
We launched a new campaign his year o sop
Monsanos GE swee corn, and gahered over 82,432
emails o op U.S. ood reailers and processors, which
were delivered in conjuncion wih our coaliion
parners in he all. This was a record number o peiion
signaures or us, and we also had over 4,000 aciviss
sign up o gaher more. The campaign resuled in WholeFoods, Trader Joes and General Mills afirming ha hey
will no sell he produc. In 2012, well ocus on geting
Walmar o do he same.
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Just Label ItCampaignIn 2011, we paricipaed in heJust Label Itcampaign,
iniiaed in spring o 2011 by a group o organic
sakeholders, collecing 15,483 peiion signaures o
he FDA asking hem o label all geneically engineered
oods. In Ocober, our saf paricipaed in several
evens ha were organized as par o he New York oDC Righ-o-Know march or GE ood labeling. The
labeling issue will coninue o be a ocus o our work on
GE oods in 2012.
Organizing in the States
to Build the Food Movement
Fair Farm Bill Road Trip
For a long ime now, Americas ood policy has been
se up o benei big agribusinesses. Combined wihunchecked corporae mergers, his policy environmen
has wreaked havoc on amily armers, public healh and
rural communiies.The Farm Bill esablishes he policies
and governmen suppor or U.S. agriculure, nuriion
programs like ood samps, rural economic developmen
programs, agriculural research and much more. The bill
is divided ino secions (called iles) ha cover speciic
program areas and generally las or abou ive years.
The cenerpiece o our organizing efor on he Farm
Bill was our Fair Farm Bill Road Trip. While we cancompee wih he big agribusinesses in erms o lobbying
resources, we can compee i we can reach and engage
a wide consiuency o everyday people, armers and
all hose concerned abou our ood sysem. Thas why
in he summer, our organizers hi he road and made
sops in over 20 saes in jus over 30 days. During he
course o his rip we organized 66 evens, gahered over
2,000 peiion signaures, held 14 meeings wih eleced
oficials and rained over 50 aciviss.
Our organizers blogged rom he road, provided updaes
wih social media ools and creaed a weekly updae
ha wen ou o our online supporers. In addiion, we
ideniied several poenial new Local Coordinaors,
who hemselves organized 13 evens. The ac ha our
new Local Coordinaors were able o organize heir
own advocacy evens gives us a sense o wha we can
accomplish by developing an exensive communiy o
voluneer leaders working wih Food & Waer Wach.
Also his year, we generaed over 9,000 leters o
Congress asking hem o keep he Farm Bill processransparen and no pass a secre Farm Bill as par o
he super commitee budge process.
Farm Bill Highlights in Key States
N Yrk
We played a prominen role in New Yorks organizing
or a Fair Farm Bill, including boh public educaion and
coaliion leadership, as well as inluencing policymakers.
On he coaliion ron, we have been acive in he
Brooklyn Food Coaliion, he Food Sysem Nework oNew York Ciy, he Faih & Farm Bill Working Group and
a New York Ciy Farm Bill coaliion. The Faih & Farm
Bill Working Group held a public orum on he Farm
Bill in Ocober eauring Food & Waer Wach Execuive
Direcor Wenonah Hauer as a keynoe speaker.
Pvi
Wih he suppor o organizers rom Green Corps (an
organizaion ha provides ield suppor or criical
environmenal campaigns) in Philadelphia, Behlehem
and Harrisburg, we ramped up our ood campaign
in Pennsylvania. We presened a coaliion leter wih
over 100 parner organizaions and arms o Senaor
Bob Casey (D-PA) calling on him o suppor he
implemenaion o air poulry and livesock markeing
rules. We also generaed over 3,000 peiion signaures
and poscards rom Pennsylvanians. Senaor Caseys
saf reieraed his suppor or he air arm rules.
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Crd
In he all, we began building voluneer groups around
our Local Coordinaors in Denver and For Collins. As
par o his efor, we had members in boh locaions
deliver copies o he 700 signaures we had gahered
in suppor o he Livesock Markeing Fairness Ac o
Senaor Michael Bennes (D-CO) ofices and organizeda panel discussion and screening oFreshwih over 200
paricipans a he Auraria Campus in Denver. A he
even, we disribued copies o our maerials calling
upon Senaor Benne o suppor he Livesock Markeing
Fairness Ac and colleced signaures. In addiion, we
presened o a group o 60 individuals a he Peoples
Food Jusice summi in early November abou our work
on a Fair Farm Bill.
Nrh Dk
For Food Day on Ocober 24, we delivered 800 peiions
o Senaor John Hoevens (R-ND) ofice in suppor o he
Fair Farm Bill.
Cifri
Food & Waer Wach saf in Caliornia gave over wo
dozen Farm Bill presenaions in key meropolian areas
such as he San Francisco Bay Area, he Cenral Valley,
Los Angeles and San Diego. In he Cenral Valley, we
worked wih key parners o urge Represenaive Jim
Cosa (D-CA) o suppor Farm Bill programs in he 2012Farm Bill. We colleced signaures and made argeed
presenaions, including one a he Caliornia Sae
Susainabiliy conerence, and have educaed local arm
allies on he issues.
Work in he Bay Area his year included geting over
30 groups o sign on o a Farm Bill resoluion, which
Supervisor Eric Mar will inroduce in 2012. We helped
organize opposiion o he super commitee Farm Bill
process and atended a meeing wih Represenaive
Nancy Pelosis (D-CA) ofice, along wih several allies
rom he San Francisco Urban Agriculure Alliance. We
recruied wo new Local Coordinaors in he Eas Bay
who will ocus on he Farm Bill. Addiionally, our abling
a GreenFes in San Francisco generaed hundreds o
peiion signaures in suppor o a Fair Farm Bill and a
ban on GE salmon.
Water ProgramOur Waer Program works wih grassroos organizaions
o preven he privaizaion o public waer resources
hrough boh he purchase o local uiliies and he
botling and selling o a communiys waer. The program
also works o reduce he sale and consumpion o botled
waer, which is ar more expensive han ap waer and
creaes mounains o garbage. Our campaign agains
botled waer is called Take Back he Tap.
Decrease the Use o Bottled Water
Consumers are spending billions o dollars every year
on botled waer, eiher because hey live in areas
where indusrial and agriculural polluion have made
he drinking waer unsae, or because he botled
waer indusry has spen millions o dollars convincing
consumers ha botled waer is a healhier choice.
Many ciizens have given up on our public waer
sysems because hey erroneously believe ha botled
waer is saer. We worked exensively his year on he
naional, sae and local levels o increase awareness
and decrease use.
Florida
We coninued o work wih he local organizaion Friends
o he Wacissa o suppor hree bills ha efecively
regulae botled waer. One o he bills would ax botled
waer a he consumer level; anoher would place a ax
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on he botling company. We are mos acively working
o suppor he hird bill, which would ban issuing any
permi or waer exracions or botling.
Take Back the Tap Campus Campaigns
Our Take Back he Tap naional campaign and
campus campaign have played a large role in changinghe publics percepion o botled waer in areas where
drinking waer is perecly sae. Our work has pu he
botled waer indusry in a deensive posiion; in ac,
aer 20 years o rapid growh, he indusry saw declines
in botled waer sales or wo consecuive years in
2008 and 2009. The Beverage Markeing Corporaion,
which racks indusry rends, atribues his decline o
he economic recession as well as o a growing eco-
consciousness among consumers.
One o he mos imporan ways ha we are ackling hisissue is hrough he Take Back he Tap campus campaign,
which we use o rain sudens and assis wih oureach
and educaion abou waer issues. We worked wih 38
campuses in he all 2011 semeser, more han double he
number o campuses he previous all. O hose campuses,
21 were new Take Back he Tap campaigns or us.
Campaign to Stop Fracking
Food & Waer Wach is leading a naional campaign
o sop hydraulic racuring (also known as racking),
a relaively new mehod or drilling hrough hardrock
ormaions like shale o obain previously inaccessible
supplies o naural gas. Shale gas drilling comes wih
serious hreas o he environmen, public healh,
agriculure and he economy. These hreas are no jus
localized o he immediae viciniy o areas being racked
since he efecs on waer, air and agriculure reach
ar beyond he immediae drilling sie as oxic waers
leach ino groundwaer sysems and mehane gas and
indusrial processes pollue he air. In he areas ha havebeen racked, livesock are dying and geting sick. Also,
he waer needed or healhy crops is becoming pollued.
Because o he inense ineres in he issue, we
are developing voluneer leaders in our organizing
campaigns. In 2011, sae campaigns signiicanly
expanded in New York, New Jersey, Colorado and
Caliornia.
National Campaign
Our naional-level acions ocused on Presiden Obama,
since here is currenly no naional legislaion on
racking. In order o pu pressure on he Presiden, on
Sepember 13, 2011 we organized a naional call-in day.
We asked people across he counry o call he Whie
House and ask Presiden Obama o ban racking.
We decided o arge Presiden Obama wih his call-in
day or several reasons. Firs, he has included naural gas
rom shale in his naional energy plan and has spoken
publicly abou he promise o naural gas as a domesic
energy source. Furhermore, in May 2011, he asked
Energy Secreary Seven Chu o orm a subcommitee
asked wih wriing a repor o improve he saey o
shale gas drilling. However, he commitee was sacked
in avor o racking, wih six ou o he seven members
having direc ies o he oil and gas indusry, and is
repor ailed o make recommendaions ha address
he ull environmenal and public healh issues wih his
mehod o drilling.
Presiden Obama also has a sea on he Delaware River
Basin Commission, along wih he governors o New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The
commission, which is charged wih managing he waer
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resources o he Delaware River, recenly developed
dra regulaions ha would open up he river basin o
racking. The river provides drinking waer o 15 million
Americans in hose saes, roughly 5 percen o he U.S.
populaion. We are working hard o sop he DRBC rom
approving racking. In he spring o 2011, Food & Waer
Wach delivered 14,000 commens rom our supporersagains racking in he river basin.
We worked closely wih our allied organizaions o
promoe he call-in day in Sepember, including Unied
or Acion, Working Families Pary in New York, Frack
Acion, Caskill Mounain Keeper and dozens o local
ani-racking organizaions across he counry. We se up
a dedicaed phone line so ha we were able o rack he
number o calls o Presiden Obama. Togeher wih our
allies we generaed an esimaed 10,000 calls in o he
Whie House.
Delaware River Basin Commission
Food & Waer Wach played a leadership role in working
o urn ou people o he planned Delaware River Basin
Commission meeing hrough educaional orums
and grassroos acions. In New Jersey, we coordinaed
a number o screenings o he movie Gaslandand
garnering signaories o hree leters o he governors
and Presiden Obama rom aih leaders and labor
organizaions o higher educaion aculy and suden
groups. We organized press evens ouside New York
Governor Andrew Cuomos Manhatan ofice and
New Jersey Governor Chris Chrisies ofice o deliver
hese and oher leters. Finally, we organized 18 buses
rom around he region o Trenon on November 21.
The meeing was originally scheduled or Ocober 21,
hen moved o November 21, and was inally delayedindeiniely. This delay is a resul o our organizing and
ha o our allies hrough he region. To mark he delay
o he meeing, we held a rally wih over 1,000 people
celebraing he DRBCs decision o pospone is voe in
Trenon.
Groundwater Protection
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A proposed projec by he Souhern Nevada Waer
Auhoriy (SNWA) would convey groundwaer in Nevadavia a 300-mile waer pipeline rom he norheasern
Lincoln and Whie Pine counies o Souhern Nevada
and he Las Vegas Valley. SNWA claims he pipeline is
needed o mee uure projeced waer demands and o
reduce Souhern Nevadas signiican dependency on
he Colorado River. However, Las Vegass recovery rom
he recession has been slower han many ciies, and he
exorbianly cosly pipeline could urher sress he ciys
ragile economy.
Because his plan is shorsighed and unsusainable,we coninue o push or an end o he pipeline projec
in our ongoing campaign in Nevada. There were several
public commen periods during he las quarer o
2011, which allowed or ongoing peiion-gahering in
opposiion o he $15 billion projec, and Food & Waer
Wach colleced 876 commens opposing he pipeline.
Two Local Coordinaors were recruied in he ciy o Las
Vegas o help organize opposiion o he projec. Anoher
voluneer submited a Spanish-language opinion-ediorial
o he local media o build opposiion wihin he Spanish-speaking communiy.
We hosed a press conerence in lae November wih
environmenal and business allies in he region, which
received signiican coverage rom media oules
hroughou he sae highlighing he opposiion o he
projec and calling on he Clark Couny Commissioners
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Working wih sae allies, his year we passed he irs
ever groundwaer proecion rule regarding acory dairy
arms. The rule ensures ha new arms mus line heir
manure lagoons, and calls or he rouine monioring o
wells wihin close proximiy o arms. This will saeguard
he waer resources o he sae.
Fish ProgramOur Fish Program works o promoe clean, green and
sae seaood or consumers, while helping o proec he
environmen and suppor coasal communiies. Seaood
consumers ell us regularly ha hey are paying more
atenion o he ish hey ea, he value hey ge rom
ha ish, and wha i does or hem as well as or he
world around hem.
Genetically Engineered Salmon
The Food and Drug Adminisraion has been considering
he approval o he irs geneically engineered animal
or human consumpion, salmon ha would grow a
wice he normal rae. The approval process has no been
ransparen and has relied almos exclusively on esing
done by he company wishing o marke he GE salmon.
Even his limied amoun o esing shows poenial risks
o human healh and wild salmon populaions, ye heFDA seems poised o approve he produc.
The igh o sop his approval coninued hroughou
he year, and bills were inroduced in he House and
he Senae ha would ban geneically engineered ish,
as well as bills ha would preven he FDA rom using
unding o approve GE salmon, which we advocaed o
our members. We also generaed hundreds o commens
o decision-makers in Europe asking hem or a GE
salmon ban.
In Caliornia, we worked o convince Senaors Barbara
Boxer (D) and Diane Feinsein (D) o oppose GE salmon.
Following up on consiuen meeings wih Feinseins
and Boxers saf, email blass, abling, and hundreds
o phone calls, we achieved big wins when Senaor
Feinsein sepped up o co-sponsor boh S.229, which
requires labeling o GE salmon, and S.230, which calls or
a ban on he producion o he ish. Senaor Boxer also
suppors S.229, and we will coninue o push her o sign
on o he ban bill as well.
In addiion o he bills ha had been inroduced earlier
in he year, in Ocober, Senaor Mark Begich (D) o
Alaska inroduced a bill ha would block he inersaeshipmen o GE salmon and oher GE ish, which would
essenially end is commercializaion. We me wih many
Senae ofices in he all o educae hem abou his bill,
and in December, Senaor Jef Merkley (D) o Oregon
joined as a cosponsor. We coninued o work closely wih
Senaor Begichs ofice on his issue, and in December
he convened a subcommitee hearing on GE salmon ha
successully raised many concerns abou he poenial
risks o his new GE animal and he lawed regulaory
process being used o evaluae i.
Stopping Factory Fish Farms in Hawaii
Jus as mulinaional corporaions have orever changed
he way ood is grown on land o he derimen o public
healh, he environmen, local communiies and ood
qualiy isel, hey are poised o do he same a sea.
The idenical acory-arm model is being adoped or
aquaculure: growing ood as cheaply as possible using
oxic chemicals and oher harmul echniques, packaging
i in enormous bulk, and shipping i o disan grocerysores and resaurans all around he world.
Our work his year o sop he reckless expansion o
ofshore ish arms in Hawaii ocused on sopping Kona
Blue Waer Farms irs acory ish arming projec in
ederal waer, keeping aquaculure ou o sancuaries,
and winning a sae moraorium on he harmul pracice.
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In erms o he Kona Blue Waer Farms projec, o which
he Naional Marine Fisheries Service Paciic Island
Regional Ofice had issued an illegal ishing permi in
early July, we iled papers seeking he cases immediae
dismissal and judgmen in he organizaions avor. While
he case is sill currenly pending, our lawsui coninues
o atrac atenion around he counry, as we have been
invied o speak a he Public Ineres Environmenal Law
Conerence abou i his March.
Preventing Privatization o Ocean Resources
This year we coninued o have successes in our
campaign o sop cach share programs ha push
isheries oward indusrialized operaions, reduce jobs
and wages or capains and crews, and cause socio-
economic problems in coasal and ishing communiies,
as well as ecological harm o our oceans. A cachshare, also known as an individual ishing quoa, is a
ranserable voucher ha gives individuals or businesses
he abiliy o access a ixed percenage o he oal
auhorized cach o a paricular species.
In he las quarer, Represenaive Jon Runyan (R-NJ)
inroduced a bill we helped o dra, he Saving Fishing
Jobs Ac o 2011 or HR 2772. The bill prevens he
abuses o cach shares by requiring a reerendum beore
a cach share program is implemened, adding a saeyvalve, erminaing a new cach share program resuling
in a 15% or greaer loss in jobs in a year, and ensuring
ha ees recover all program coss. We aimed o gaher
cosponsors o he bill, and over he year i picked up nine
cosponsors. Moreover, because o our work, Senaors
Kelly Ayote (R) o New Hampshire and Scot Brown
(R) o Massachusets inroduced a companion bill in he
Senae. Momenum coninues o grow or he bills, and
Food & Waer Wach has been recognized as a leader on
hese efors.
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EXPENSES
Program
Food $3,738,267
Water $2,630,490
Fish $1,301,417
Total Program $7,670,174
Management $1,195,212
Fund Raising $ 564,307
TOTAL EXPENSE $9,429,693
INCOME
Grants and Contributions $11,447,977
Interest Income $9,021
Contract Fees $29,028
Other $11,575
TOTAL INCOME $11,497,601
ENDING NET ASSETSas of December 31, 2011
$5,621,061
F I N A N C I A L S
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