The Cahaba River Society and Cahaba Riverkeeper (CRK), represented by Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), reached an agreement with the Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) and the Attorney General of
Cahaba River Society, Alabama Rivers Alliance, Greater Birmingham Ministries and SWEET Alabama are partnering to focus #GivingTuesday efforts to help people in the Birmingham metro area directly impacted by water inequality.
Clean, healthy, affordable drinking water is a human right essential to life — and there are people in our communities who are denied access to this right because they can’t afford to pay high water bills. There are families who have had their water shut off or face that threat – a serious health and economic problem at any time, but especially in a pandemic.