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Tennessee Clean
Water Network

123A S. Gay St.
Knoxville, TN 37902

Office: 865.522.7007
Fax: 865.525.4988

Welcome to The Tennessee Clean Water Network

TCWN organizes Tennesseans to claim our right to clean water and healthy communities by fostering civic engagement, building coalitions and advancing water policy for a sustainable future.

Our vision is for:

  • All Tennesseans to have access to and benefit from clean, free-flowing water;
  • An unstoppable upwelling of Tennesseans exercising our right to protect clean water;
  • Tennessee water quality policy to be a model for the nation, with standards that exceed federal minimums and a commitment to improve those standards for the benefit of all Tennesseans;
  • Protection of the unique beauty of Tennessee's rivers, lakes and open spaces.

Learn more about what we do…

Latest News

Job opportunities at TCWN:
Mississippi River Basin Collaborative Coordinator

TCWN currently has an opening for the position of Mississippi River Basin Collaborative Coordinator. Click here for a description of the position.

View the 2008 Spring Newsletter, The Current

Legislators Abandon Limited Resource Waters Issue

(Nashville, TN) A bill originally intended to reclassify streams throughout the state has been rewritten to aid in the removal of tires and other debris from the Nolickucky River. Tennessee House Representative Joe McCord and Senator Steve Southerland were sponsoring a bill commonly referred to as the “Limited Resource Waters Bill” that would have removed protection from approximately 30,000 miles of streams throughout our state…

Governor Bredesen supports Clean Water Restoration Act

(Nashville, TN) "By once again establishing protection for those waters that historically have been protected, this bill removes the uncertainty and confusion for the regulated community and for the state and federal agencies who implement the Clean Water Act and related laws. The Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007...restores Clean Water Act protections to those [waters] that existed for decades..." Read TCWN's thank you letter to Governor Bredesen.

Of Time and the River: Development threatens the health of the Tennessee River

(WBIR-TV, Knoxville) ... River watchdogs also say industrial pollution has improved, but that it continues to harm our waterways. Renee Hoyos of the Tennessee Clean Water Network cites the Troubled Waters study published every two years by the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups noting Tennessee still "ranks eighth in the nation for the number of pollution permit exceedances..."

TN Clean Water Network Nationally Recognized for Outstanding Water Protection

(Knoxville, TN) TCWN is the 2007 recipient of the American Canoe Association’s Green Paddle Award for Waterway Conservation. The award is presented annually to an individual or a group that has made an outstanding contribution to Paddlesport by protecting America's waterways.