LiKEN convenes the East Kentucky Water Network, a network of organizations and stakeholders working together to secure clean, reliable, and affordable drinking water and improve watershed quality in eastern Kentucky.
Our objectives are:
to increase public participation in water governance/ advocacy/ organizing in the eastern Kentucky counties represented in the coalition by meeting people’s basic life needs for clean, safe, and affordable water;
to contribute to and shape public narratives around the importance and necessity of clean and affordable drinking water to a just economic transition and development in Central Appalachia;
to connect efforts to improve watershed quality with community-led advocacy efforts around clean and affordable drinking water;
to provide accurate, understandable, and actionable data to residents in eastern Kentucky that connect community health issues to environmental issues, and local situations to broader regional and national trends;
to build community capacity to shape policies at the local, state, and national levels.
The network meets weekly and supports our members in our water work.
