Last Stand on the Apalachicola

Waterkeepers Ascend the Himalayas to Help Locals Raise Water Quality

By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Last July, International Director Sharon Khan and two experts on water-quality monitoring – Milwaukee Riverkeeper Cheryl Nenn and former Waccamaw...

Color Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper Royal Blue with Global Leadership Award

By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper’s extraordinarily successful restoration of the Niagara River and its watershed was recognized in September in New Delhi,...

San Francisco Baykeeper’s Victories to Stop Industrial Polluters Now Total Over Three Dozen

By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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A suit by San Francisco Baykeeper under the Clean Water Act has yielded an agreement with the Granite Rock Company to prevent contaminated rain water...

Aw Shucks, NY/NJ Baykeeper Builds the First Living Shoreline in NY/NJ Harbor

By: ajcarapella
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By Meredith Comi, Restoration Program Director, NY/NJ Baykeeper NY/NJ Baykeeper and partners have begun to install a first-of-its-kind urban living...

Federal Settlement Requires Duke Plant to Stop Bucking the Law

By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Yadkin Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance reached a settlement with Duke Energy in September that requires the utility to remove more than five million...

For a Patagonia River, a Victory of Biblical Proportions

By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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It was the latest advance in a protracted battle to save the Futaleufú River in Chilean Patagonia, a battle that Futaleufú Riverkeeper and fellow...

Suit Demands Drummond Clean Up Mess It Left On the Banks of Black Warrior River

By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Black Warrior Riverkeeper, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and Public Justice filed a notice of intent to sue in September against Drummond...

A Phone Ringing Along Puget Sound Costs BNSF $75,000

By: Lesley Adams
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In February 2014, North Sound Baykeeper Lee First, who patrols North Puget Sound, got a call from a concerned community member who noticed creosote...

Ottawa Riverkeeper Celebrates Heritage Status for the Ottawa River

By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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It has been a long time coming: the river that flows through Canada’s capital and is safeguarded by Ottawa Riverkeeper has been formally designated...

Demanda Legal exige que la compañía Drummond limpie lo que dejó a las orillas del Río Black Warrior

By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Autor: Alianza Waterkeeper Volumen 13, Edición 1 En septiembre, las ONGs Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Centro de Derecho Ambiental del Sur (SELC por sus...

Sunny Skies, Troubled Waters

By: ajcarapella
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Waterkeepers contend with the human impact on Florida’s aquatic systems. Photos and text by Lynne Buchanan Florida’s waterways are treasures that...

Klamath River Dam Removal

By: Klamath Riverkeeper
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The Klamath River’s advocates succeed on their second try with new agreement for largest-ever dam removal. By Konrad Fisher, Klamath Riverkeeper...

Last hope for America’s “Most Endangered River”

By: ajcarapella
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Apalachicola Riverkeeper Dan Tonsmeire is fighting for the life of his river, but it’s the U.S Supreme Court and the Army Corps of Engineers who will...

You pollute, and then you sue?

By: Patuxent Riverkeeper
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Standing up to polluters can be a risky business. By Frederick Tutman, Patuxent Riverkeeper I could hardly believe my ears when one of our members told...

Book Review: Water as Our Planet Intended It

By: ajcarapella
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By Rhiannon Fionn “Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World” is a book about water, of course, but it’s also about some things you might...