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Protect Water Prevent Cancer

Protect Water Prevent Cancer is a non-partisan partnership project
with the Iowa Environmental Council

Our partners at the Iowa Environmental Council have created a series of training sessions that are useful tools to help us.  As you know, election season is off and running and one of the most impactful things we can do is to let these candidates know how important these issues are to us by showing up to their events and town halls to find out what they propose to do to clean up our Waters. We want to help support you. 
 
 We want to hear from you! Share your story. 

  • What brings you to care about this issue?

  • Do you or someone you know have a battle with cancer? Are you concerned about what you've learned this year about Iowa's trends?

 

Write a letter to the editor!

  • Do you have a platform on social media that you use? You can share your story there.

  • Do you have a big or small local network?  Speak to those around you about your story and about this issue.

 

Find more resources below.

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In The  News

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"My greatest fear is we will look back on this time and realize we were bathing in a soup of chemicals while being told we were safe, not unlike the narrative we were fed from Big Tobacco," said Jodi Reese at the launch of the Protect Water Prevent Cancer campaign.
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“Many of my patients have told me they believe their cancer came from the environment from which they lived,” said Jodi Reese, who has worked as a nurse practitioner and co-founded the Nishnabotna Water Defenders, a group in Southwest Iowa advocating to keep their water clean. “They are not wrong. It is no secret our health is directly linked to our environment. Put simply, what happens on the landscape affects our bodies. Iowa’s alarming cancer rates reflect the excessive, unchecked number and volume of carcinogens we are exposed to every day.”
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