This program seeks to support the work of communities in identifying, understanding, and addressing the public health and environmental issues associated with water resources. Clean water is intrinsically linked to ecological health and overall well-being of the public. For many, there is a disconnect between individual health and community environmental health. The Trust seeks to fund projects that highlight the interdependence of the two while providing solutions to improving both. Projects that address multiple issues simultaneously are always encouraged.

The Trust also seeks to address environmental inequities in many urban and lower-income communites that are experiencing disproportionately high level of water pollution. Communication and action is necessary at community, regional, and state levels to address these inequities. Priority will be given to those who reach out to health care providers and influential groups.

What the Trust is Looking for?

	Forming working partnerships and networks with health professionals; community, political, or religious leaders;
	Environmental education projects that improve the public's understanding of the relationship between contaminated water and specific illness, encouraging proactive solutions to the problem;
	Supporting municipal strategies to protect water and public health;
	Expanding the responsible use of biomonitoring and other techniques to measure the public's exposure to water-related environmental health hazards;
	Initiating community based education campaigns aimed at minimizing sources of water pollution to protect public health and/or to reduce environmental inequities;
	Encouraging citizen activists in low-income or "environmental justice" communities to engage in issues that directly affect individual and community health and water-related environmental sustainability.

• State Laws require that no funds can be used in support of political or religious organizations. Funds may only be used for public purposes outlined to meet MET goals. Aplicants should consult 815 CMR 2.00 (state regualtions governing grant funding to non-public entities at http://www.mass.gov/osc/Regs/Regs.html.)