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We work to protect Californian’s water from fracking, to curtail oil drilling and to make the state’s agriculture more environmentally and socially responsible.  Join us and get involved. 

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    Los Angeles, California  90017
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Food & Water Watch California activists rally against fracking

Food & Water Watch’s California team works with local communities and a broad range of environmental and social justice groups statewide to ban fracking and other destructive oil and gas drilling, and to stop corporations from controlling and exploiting our water and agriculture. Our organizers are active throughout Los Angeles and Ventura, Santa Barbara, Monterey and  Butte Counties along with the San Francisco Bay Area.

Fighting Fracking and Oil and Gas Drilling

California is the nation’s third-largest oil producer. Unfortunately, Governor Gavin Newsom continues to allow the industry to threaten the environment and public health by supporting dangerous drilling, including fracking. The California team of Food & Water Watch is working to ban fracking in the state. We’ve helped win fracking bans in San Benito, Santa Cruz, Butte and Alameda counties and the city of Beverley Hills.  These bans will protect local aquifers from toxic chemicals used in fracking. 

We also work with community groups to end drilling in South Los Angeles and other urban areas to safeguard residents from the serious health impacts affecting those communities.

In addition, we helped break the news of the massive Aliso Canyon gas storage leak, and have been working alongside Save Porter Ranch to close the facility for good.

As a founding member of Californians Against Fracking, a statewide coalition calling for a ban, Food & Water Watch works to protect all Californians from dangerous oil and gas extraction and to advocate for a just transition to 100% renewable energy.

Protecting Water

California grows most of the nation’s produce, and agriculture accounts for eighty percent of water use in the state. As the state continues to face a historic drought, it also  bears the consequences of a century of water mismanagement. Major giveaways of public water to agencies that serve the powerful corporate agriculture interests that are literally sucking the state’s aquifers dry. Food & Water Watch’s California team fights for an overhaul of the state’s water management water to ensure Californians – not corporations – have the water they need.

Protecting Our Food

Food & Water Watch works with Protect California Food to end the use of oil wastewater to irrigate crops in the Central Valley.  Although consumers are only now becoming aware of it, for years oil companies like Chevron have been selling their minimally treated wastewater to local water districts, which provide it to agricultural producers to potentially irrigate their crops. Farmers, who are competing with oil companies for scarce water in a drought have little choice but to take the water, which is not regularly tested for toxic chemicals used in oil production. Food & Water Watch along with our partners have called on Governor Newsom and the State Water Board to halt the practice unless it can be proven safe.

Featured Action

Tell Governor Newsom to declare a climate emergency! 

We are calling on Newsome to move off fossil fuels by declaring a climate emergency, halting new fossil fuel permits, shutting down the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility and moving California to 100% renewable energy by 2030.

MOVE CALIFORNIA OFF FOSSIL FUELS

Latest News

  • Newsom’s Climate Order Snubs Environmental Justice Advocates and Protects Big Oil

    Newsom’s Climate Order Snubs Environmental Justice Advocates and Protects Big Oil

  • Gavin Newsom has quietly lifted California's moratorium on fracking.

    Promises, Promises: Gavin Newsom Has Broken His When It Comes To Fracking

  • Governor Gavin Newsom promises Aliso Canyon community members he'll shut down Aliso Canyon

    Newsom Is Getting Warmer On Environmental Issues, But He’s Not Hot Yet

  • Los Angeles approves an historic solar energy deal!

    Los Angeles Publicly-Owned Utility Okays Biggest Solar Deal in the Country, Bringing Record-Cheap Clean Energy

  • Mayor Garcetti announces decision to scrap rebuilding gas plants

    Is Los Angeles Leading the Way on 100 Percent Clean Energy?

  • Public Water Now leaders celebrate the victory on election night. From Left: George Riley, Public Water Now Director; Melodie Chrislock, Communications Director; Phil Wellman, Advertising Strategist (Wellman Advertising & Design). Photo credit: Bob Coble.

    A Hard-Fought Win for Public Water on California’s Monterey Peninsula

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    100 Percent Renewable Energy for Los Angeles

    The transition is faster, easier and cheaper than you thought.

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    Dear Governor Brown

    Despite the clear evidence of fracking’s harm, California Governor Jerry Brown continues to green light the oil industry’s reckless expansion of fracking.

Connect with an organizer in California

  • Walker Foley, Sr. Organizer

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    Walker Foley is a Southern California Organizer at Food & Water Watch. He works in Los Angeles and Southern California to campaign and advocate for safe food, the human right to water and a ban on dangerous oil industry practices.

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