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The Great Lakes Need You!
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
The North American Great Lakes are the most extensive freshwater system on the planet. Their surrounding watersheds and tributary rivers are essential...

Detroit Riverkeeper is Helping Reverse Decades of Unregulated Pollution
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Detroit River is a crucial strait in the Great Lakes system, connecting Lake Erie with Lake Huron by way of the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair....

Who is Waterkeeper: Kathy Phillips, Assateague Coastkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
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Kathy Phillips has been the Assateague Coastkeeper in the coastal watersheds of Maryland and Virginia’s Coastal Bays watershed for going on 14 years....

Water Data Collaborative, a New Program at The Commons
- By: Guest Contributor
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Erin Hofmann. Originally published by The Commons, republished with permission. The Commons was chartered as an organization built for bringing together...

Help Suwannee Riverkeeper Save Okefenokee Swamp
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Today, you can take action to help Suwannee Riverkeeper protect Okefenokee Swamp and the surrounding community in Southern Georgia and northern Florida...

3 Things You Didn’t Know About Water
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
In honor of World Water Day, we’re shedding light on a few facts about water that put the work of Waterkeepers into perspective. 1) 2.2 billion people...

How to run a farm and be a hero at the same time
- By: Nicoya Peninsula Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Mariana Cassini. Originally published by Nicoya Peninsula Waterkeeper, reposted with permission. En español a continuación In the Cobano District...

Jordan River Waterkeeper Takes to the Virtual World
- By: Jordan River Waterkeeper
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By Gidon Bromberg, the Jordan River Waterkeeper – Israel, and Co-founder and 25-year Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East Having a boat to navigate,...

Restoring Eroded Farmland through Creative Partnerships
- By: Haw Riverkeeper
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By Emily Sutton, the Haw Riverkeeper with Haw River Assembly. Reposted with permission from Haw River Assembly. Controlling Erosion with Mushrooms Saxapahaw,...

Reclaiming the Commons
- By: Guest Contributor
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Some Thoughts on Rivers, Wildlife, and People By James G. Blaine and Bernard W. Sweeney I. The Tragedy of the Commons “Picture a pasture open to all,”...

In 2020, River Protection Along China’s Beiyun Continued
- By: Guest Contributor
- Clean Water Defense | News
Photos and text by Ms. Wong, Green Earth Volunteers Green Earth Volunteers, home to Beiyun Waterkeeper, has been dedicated to observing and protecting...

Tell Biden: It’s time to put clean water and a healthy environment front and center
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
With the Biden administration set to assume power next month, we’re strategizing what the next four years will mean for our movement to protect clean...

Statement Regarding Attempt to Silence Citizen Advocacy in Chile
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Marc Yaggi, executive director of Waterkeeper Alliance, released the following statement regarding attempts to silence the voice of the environmental defender...

Local Clean Water Wins from the November 2020 Election
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Clean water was *literally* on the ballot on November 3 for many counties and states across the United States. Local and state ballot initiatives asked...

It’s time for NC to make a simple, scientific, change to improve its water quality standards
- By: Catawba Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
North Carolina is behind Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi in water quality standards By Brandon Jones, Catawba Riverkeeper Gov. Roy...

Life on a Boat on Dongting Lake
- By: Waterkeepers China
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Katherine Olson, Communications Associate with Waterkeepers China Many environmental organizations know the importance of getting youth engaged with...

Protecting the Great Lakes at the Source
- By: Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Jill Jedlicka, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper The source, or headwaters, of a river or stream is the critical building block of waterways that influence...

This Holiday Season, Buy Locally from Sustainable Farmers
- By: Broad Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By David Caldwell, Broad Riverkeeper with MountainTrue. Originally published by MountainTrue. Photos by Colfax Creek Farm. As we approach the holiday season,...

It’s long past time NC takes action on pollution from poultry
- By: Haw Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Emily Sutton, Haw Riverkeeper The unregulated poultry industry in North Carolina is burgeoning, with the number of chickens and turkeys increasing 17...

Count Every Vote
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
We’re in the midst of an historic election season. As many as 160 million Americans are expected to vote this year; some are predicting voter turnout...

Searching for the world’s only freshwater porpoise
- By: Guest Contributor
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Katherine Olson, Communications Associate with Waterkeepers China As the motorboat skims across the surface, Dongting Lake lake stretches infinitely...

Why you should care about seabed mining
- By: Twin Harbors Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Lee First, Twin Harbors Waterkeeper. Originally published by Twin Harbors Waterkeeper. “What are we sacrificing by looking at the deep sea with dollar...

Act Now: Our Toxic Coal Ash Legacy
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- Clean And Safe Energy | News
Coal-fired power plants are by far the single largest contributor of toxic pollutants such as arsenic, cadmium, and lead to waterways across the United...

Protecting the Clean Water Act is more important than ever
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Marc Yaggi, executive director of Waterkeeper Alliance. Originally published in The Hill. This month in 1972, President Nixon vetoed the bipartisan...

Pipelines for Hog Waste Gas are Dirty Energy
- By: Jill Howell
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Jill Howell, Pamlico Tar Riverkeeper, Sound Rivers Our nation is moving away from dangerous pipelines — and it’s a move for the better. In July,...

Protecting, Preserving, and Restoring the Floodplain
- By: Matthew Starr
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper. Originally published by Sound Rivers. We still have more than a month left in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season,...

Show your appreciation for environmentally conscious farmers
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
A lot of folks in North Carolina produce meat. The state ranks second nationally in pork production and is among the nation’s leaders in poultry production....

A win for the Marañón? Energy company moves to terminate dam contract, but what will the Peruvian government do?
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
One of the companies with a concession to build a mega dam on the Marañón River, the main hydrological source of the Amazon, has formally asked the Peruvian...

New Life for Hann Bay
- By: Tom Quinn
- Clean Water Defense | News
Senegal’s Hann Bay was once a sparkling jewel with white sand beaches that ran from the industrial port of Dakar about eight miles to the outskirts of...

United States: ‘If we continue to place our own individuality at the centre of our existence we will collapse on ourselves’
- By: Guest Contributor
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By Alicia Kroemer. Originally published by Minority Rights Group International in Minorities and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology. Featuring...