The Center for Water Advocacy is a non-profit public interest law firm which strives to promote the long-term sustainability of water resources in the Western United States and Alaska for the benefit of fish and wildlife populations, habitat, aesthetics, recreation, and traditional and cultural activities, using the principles of democracy, environmental justice, and sound ecology as our guide.

Our long term vision is to:

1. act as a strong and successful advocate for the public and native peoples on protection of water resources;

2. promote opportunities for quiet recreation, such as hiking, fishing, backpacking, and biking, etc.;

3. ensure the long-term sustainability of fish and wildlife populations by reducing take and habitat fragmentation and loss;

4. support traditional gathering, fishing and hunting practices and aboriginal tribal treaty rights;

5. promote and pursue democracy and environmental justice principles in the management of natural resources;

6. working to not only reduce the impacts of global climate change on our water resources, but to reduce climate change itself through the use of water as a tool against carbon producing industrial practices;

7. use litigation and other strategies to convince federal land management agencies and private corporations that, due to the inevitable scarcity of water, conservation, rather than uncontrolled development and resource abuse is the most practicable and economic tool we can apply towards the impacts of global warming; and

8. challenge actions and decisions on water management issues that pose irreparable harm to the long-term viability of fish and wildlife populations, citizen rights to clean water, and the rights of native peoples to maintain tradition and culture.