Free-Flowing Rivers
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Amanda Reichelt-Brushett, Richmond Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Richmond Riverkeeper is one of the newest Waterkeeper groups in the movement. Their official membership only went live in December of 2023. But the impetus...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Bruce Reznik, Los Angeles Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Waterkeeper Movement
Los Angeles Waterkeeper Bruce Reznik grew up in a quiet, residential area of Los Angeles County. As a kid, he can remember seeing signs pointing out the...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Bunleap Leang, Lower Sesan River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Bunleap Leang is the Lower Sesan River Waterkeeper in Cambodia. The Lower Sesan River runs for roughly 225 kilometers, or about 140 miles, and is a sanctuary...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Stands With Groups in the Western U.S Seeking to Avoid the Collapse of the Colorado River Supply System
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Colorado Riverkeeper, John Weisheit, drafted detailed scoping comments submitted to the Bureau of Reclamation on August 17, 2023 as a part of that agency’s...
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Waterkeepers Meet in Sweden for Regional Summit
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Skill building in the far North, with 24 hours of daylight, sled dogs, and coffee. Earlier this month, Waterkeepers from Africa, the Middle East, Europe,...
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Waterkeepers Meet in Hyannis, Massachusetts for Regional Summit
- By: María Victoria Díaz-González
- News
Earlier this month, North Atlantic Waterkeepers gathered in Hyannis, Massachusetts for a long awaited Regional Summit. The North Atlantic Regional Summit...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Gidon Bromberg, Jordan River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Jordan River runs for about 100 kilometers, from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, serving as a border between Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians....
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Futaleufú Riverkeeper Advocates for Water Reserve Designation
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
This year Futaleufú Riverkeeper celebrated ten years working to protect the Futaleufú River. It’s been a long journey of ups and downs since we began...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Melinda Booth, Yuba River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Yuba River runs for about a hundred miles from its origins in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe in Northern California downhill to the Sacramento...
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COP27: Groups warn of severe climate and human rights risk of new hydropower dams and schemes
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Dams and hydropower schemes create major loss and damage, including producing significant amounts of methane, biodiversity loss, and community displacement....
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Bill Lucey, Long Island Soundkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Bill Lucey, a Connecticut native, has been the Long Island Soundkeeper since 2017. However, the organization’s inception dates back three decades to...
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COP26: UN human rights experts highlight continued human rights impacts of dams
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Calls mount for UN climate financing mechanisms to exclude hydropower As negotiators convened at COP26 in Glasgow attempt to break the deadlock on emissions...
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300 organizations from 69 countries call on governments to not use climate funding for so-called “sustainable” hydropower schemes
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
300 organizations from 69 countries today launched a Rivers for Climate Global Declaration calling on governments and leaders attending COP26 to protect...
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Press Conference: Hydropower – A False Climate Solution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Over 280 organizations from 69 countries call for climate funding to exclude so-called “sustainable” hydropower schemes. WHEN: 21 September 2021 |...
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Motion to Protect Amazon Rivers Approved at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille
- By: ajcarapella
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR). Republished with permission. The Members’ Assembly of the International Union for Conservation of...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Dire IPCC Report on Climate Crisis
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released earlier today brings a dire warning: climate change is accelerating and aggressive...
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Nature Always Wins: The Colorado River Basin’s Dam Problem
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The fight for clean and free-flowing waterways often runs up against dams. These structures once seemed like great solutions for how to provide power and...
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Appeal Filed to Sustain Colorado River Flows and Stop Gross Dam Expansion
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Coalition Stays the Course in Fight to Halt Construction of Tallest Dam in Colorado History DENVER – A coalition of conservation groups filed a notice...
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Milwaukee Riverkeeper is turning the tide on years of industrial pollution
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Milwaukee River Basin covers nearly 900 square miles across seven Wisconsin counties. Its three main rivers — the Milwaukee, the Menomonee, and the...
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Settlement Agreement Reached for Windy Gap Firming Project Litigation
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Today, opposing sides in the litigation over the Windy Gap Firming Project (“Project”) reached and signed a settlement agreement that ends the litigation...
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Broad Coalition of Environmental Nonprofits Urge Elected Officials to Oppose the Goldendale Pumped Storage Development
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
A coalition of fifteen environmental organizations called on Washington and Oregon elected officials to oppose the Goldendale Energy Storage Hydroelectric...
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A Win for the Marañón River? Enel asks Peruvian Government to terminate dam contract
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Future of Critical Amazon River Tributary Still in Danger A global energy company with a concession to build a dam on the Marañón River, a major tributary...
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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...
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Newly Released Video Shows Tranquil Villages That Would be Flooded if Marañón Dams are Built
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Marañón Waterkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance released a video that takes viewers to tranquil villages on the floor of Peru’s remote Marañón Canyon,...
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Sign to save the source of the Amazon!
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Read in Spanish / Leer en español Planned dams on Peru’s Marañón River, the hydrological source of the Amazon, would flood farms and caves containing...
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Conservation Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Attack on the Power of States and Local Residents to Protect Clean Water
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Conservation groups today challenged in federal court a Trump administration rollback of clean water protections that sharply curtails the ability of...
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Funding Hydropower Projects will Not Fight Climate Change
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | News
There is a new significant threat to our free flowing rivers and our climate: the promotion of hydropower under the guise that it is clean, renewable energy...
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Conservationists Intervene To Oppose New Dam Project Near The Grand Canyon
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
New hydropower project would harm Little Colorado River and endangered species A coalition of conservation groups filed a motion to intervene today to...
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New legal analysis: Dams that threaten the source of the Amazon can’t legally be built
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
The environmental impact assessments for two dams planned on Marañón River, the main tributary to the Amazon, have expired, meaning the dams can no longer...
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Peru’s planned dams would displace 1,000 and “decapitate” the Amazon
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Photos by Ben Webb Twenty hydroelectric dams are planned for Peru’s Marañón River, the primary tributary to the Amazon; two have been approved. These...