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The Clean Water Campaign is a cooperative, multi-agency public education initiative spearheaded by local governments in metro Atlanta, supported by the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District and managed by the Atlanta Regional Commission. Its mission is to build awareness of water quality problems and solutions in the Atlanta region. Click here for more information about the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District. What is the history behind the CWC? Local governments in the five-county area of Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett are required by the Georgia EPD to have a permit and stormwater management program to regulate discharges to their stormwater sewer systems. Public education is an important part of a local stormwater program. To reduce redundancy and deliver a consistent message, the local governments in the five-county area proposed a single regional public education program which would be able to deliver the sorts of broad media efforts and coordination that was needed to effectively reach the public in the Atlanta metro area. The Clean Water Campaign was born in 2001 and soon became a collaborative initiative bringing together state and Federal government agencies, groups involved in water quality and water resources protection, and the business community. Click here to find out information about the programs that the local governments are working on to improve water quality and to find out about the history of the problem...