Food & Water Watch - Oregon

Directions Website Contact the organization

Food & Water Watch - Oregon Oregon team of Food & Water Watch, fighting for the safe food, clean water, and livable climate we all deserve. We are protecting your food and water. Join us!

Mission
Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping the global commons — our shared resources — under public control. Learn more: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/who-we-are/

Sign the petition for a factory farm moratorium: http://bit.ly/3CuEzQB

Want to get involved?
--Sign up for our email list: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
--Volunteer with us: https://fwwat.ch/ORvol
--Receive Mobile Action Alerts on your phone by texting "watch" to 69866

We'll keep you informed about important actions you can take to protect your basic rights to safe, clean and affordable food and water. And we'll work to make sure your experience as part of our network is interesting, educational and exciting. Together we are making a difference. Posting Policy:
This is a page for supporters of Food & Water Watch, and we encourage open, constructive and respectful discussion and invite you to share your opinion on our issues. While differing viewpoints are encouraged, harassment of our supporters will not be tolerated, and we reserve the right to delete posts containing any of the following elements:

- profanity and/or offensive language
- misinformation
- spam/off-topic
- personal attacks or name calling
- promoting violence
- promoting illegal or questionable activities
- commercial ventures

If you repeatedly violate this policy, your comments will be removed and you may be blocked from our page. We appreciate your cooperation and look forward to connecting with each of you.

In a massive victory for the dedicated community members who fought for it, Governor Kotek just ordered Oregon’s Departm...
10/13/2026

In a massive victory for the dedicated community members who fought for it, Governor Kotek just ordered Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality to halt new air and water permitting for data centers until July 2027 while the issue is addressed during the upcoming legislative session.

Enviro Group Encourages Moratorium on Hyperscale Data Centers in OR

10/06/2026

📣 NEW REPORT 📣 If it feels like the United States’ affordability crisis is at a fever pitch, that’s because it is. Dive into the data and learn about the corporate forces driving our country’s surging water bills in our research team’s new analysis: https://fwwat.ch/3TNtUMK

When the Stockwater Exemption – which allows farms to withdraw unlimited groundwater – was created in 1909, Oregon dairi...
08/07/2026

When the Stockwater Exemption – which allows farms to withdraw unlimited groundwater – was created in 1909, Oregon dairies had an average of just four dairy cows.

Today, the state’s largest Tier 2 dairy farms confine an average of nearly 11,000 cows. These aren’t family farms. This is corporate consolidation and industrialized animal agriculture on a scale no one could have predicted in 1909.

Don’t let 117 year old laws take your water. Read our latest research piece here: https://fwwat.ch/4yr9Tv0

Factory farms are allowed to pollute the environment, hurt small farmers and guzzle our water with no repercussions. The...
08/06/2026

Factory farms are allowed to pollute the environment, hurt small farmers and guzzle our water with no repercussions. These Big Ag corporations are able to exploit Oregon’s antiquated water code and crowd out small family farms.

Not only do we need to strengthen regulations, we need to make sure big agriculture follows them. Hold factory farms accountable by signing the petition to permanently end the stockwater exemption today! https://fwwat.ch/4w5M4Hx

Vital Oregon water restrictions are set to expire next year, but Food & Water Watch is working to protect them. Join us ...
08/03/2026

Vital Oregon water restrictions are set to expire next year, but Food & Water Watch is working to protect them. Join us for a virtual panel August 5 at 4PM PT to learn about the impacts of factory farming in Oregon and what can be done to protect our scarce water resources: https://fwwat.ch/44CPgyp

Did you know that Oregon’s large dairies and beef feedlots produce over 8 billion pounds of manure a year? This manure s...
07/31/2026

Did you know that Oregon’s large dairies and beef feedlots produce over 8 billion pounds of manure a year? This manure seeps into local groundwater, posing a major public health risk. Thanks to factory farms, nitrate concentration in the Lower Umatilla Basin has been increasing for 32 years.

Speak out to protect our water and our health: https://fwwat.ch/4w5M4Hx

We’re conserving water while factory farms guzzle it. Tell your legislators that we need to preserve current restriction...
07/27/2026

We’re conserving water while factory farms guzzle it. Tell your legislators that we need to preserve current restrictions and protect our water: https://fwwat.ch/4w5M4Hx

07/24/2026

Did you know that Oregon’s Stockwater Exemption is older than sliced bread?

Thanks to these antiquated water restrictions, factory farms are allowed to draw as much groundwater as they want, without acquiring permits. We can’t allow regulations on this law to expire next year. Sign this petition to urge your legislator to protect Oregon’s water: https://fwwat.ch/4w5M4Hx

Address

Portland, OR

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Food & Water Watch - Oregon posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to Food & Water Watch - Oregon:

Shortcuts

Share