News & Updates
China NGO Develops First Grassroots-Level Environmental Standards for Chemical Industrial Parks
- By: Waterkeepers China
- News
By Katherine Olson, Waterkeepers China Communication Associate In alliance with various partners such as the Alibaba Foundation, SEE, and the Ford Eco...
Clean Water Act Rollbacks Threaten Upper Potomac Watershed
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Brent Walls, Upper Potomac Riverkeeper, bought a new Hyundai Tucson in 2012, which he mostly uses for work. Since then, he’s put almost 300,000 miles...
Tell EPA: Keep Mercury Limits Strong
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Thanks to air emissions standards created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air Act in 2011, important progress in reducing...
North Carolina Waterkeepers Mobilize Communities Against Hog Waste
- By: Will Hendrick
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
How can a state manage 9.5 billion gallons of hog waste each year? That’s the question North Carolina has been grappling with for more than 20 years....
20 Years of Water Protection and Counting – Waterkeeper Alliance Targets Clean Water Growth Plan to Protect Waterways Worldwide
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Network of clean water advocates protect more than 2.5 million square miles of waterways across globe to ensure clean drinking water and safe water access...
India’s East Kali River to Receive Revival Work
- By: East Kali River Waterkeeper
- News
By Raman Kant, East Kali River Waterkeeper East Kali River is the main tributary of the national holy Ganga. After originating from Muzaffarnagar district...
Clean Water Act Rollbacks Further Expose Greater Houston to Flooding
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
As Houston grows, the city and its suburbs are devouring its wetlands. Building subdivisions on top of wetlands has made the nation’s fourth-largest...
From Lake Coeur d’Alene to the Columbia: A Journey Down the Spokane River
- By: Spokane Riverkeeper
- News
By Lee First, Spokane Riverkeeper outreach specialist. Reposted with permission from Adventures NW. Rivers teach us, and I wanted the Spokane River to...
Qiantang River Waterkeeper Leads Students on SDG Discovery Tour in Cheongju, South Korea
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Reported by Katherine Olson, Waterkeepers China Communication Associate February 8 to 15, Qiantang River Waterkeeper led a group of students on an in-depth...
Protect Puget Sound Against Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Puget Soundkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Chris Wilke, Puget Soundkeeper & Executive Director The waters of Puget Sound aren’t just my profession, or my passion—they are my life. And...
Stand up for Colorado Waters
- By: Boulder Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Boulder Waterkeeper Ted Ross Colorado is one of two headwater states in the United States where all the flowing fresh water originates as precipitation....
Help Ban the Plastic Bag in New York
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Jeremy Cherson, Legislative Advocacy Manager at Riverkeeper. Reposted with permission from Riverkeeper. Let’s do this right; ask your reps to...
The Green New Deal: What Does it Mean for Water?
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
By Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal With 2018 being the fourth-hottest year on record, and 18 of the 19 warmest years on record having occurred since 2001,...
Sperry and Waterkeeper Alliance Partner on New Sustainability Initiative
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
To combat the world’s growing ocean plastic epidemic Sperry, the iconic footwear brand with a heritage of innovation and a love for the sea, and...
Waterkeepers Florida Committed to Protecting Sunshine State Waters
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Written with Jen Lomberk, John S. Quarterman, Lisa Rinaman, and Kelly Cox. Regional entity Waterkeepers Florida came together early February for an in-person...
Defend Missouri’s Maramec Spring Against Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Maramec Spring is the center of a popular Missouri park, with 1,860 acres of forests and fields, and a well-attended annual Kids’ Fishing Day, where...
Statement of Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler to EPA on Redefining Waters of the U.S.
- By: Kansas Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels, Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler, and Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz braved icy roads to testify in...
In Awe of the Women of Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By April Seymore, Executive Officer of Port Phillip EcoCentre/Port Phillip Baykeeper Feature image: The author (second from left) aboard the SV Pelican...
Act Now – Don’t Let Trump Give Our Public Lands to Big Oil’s Bernhardt
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | News
UPDATE: A Senate vote to confirm David Bernhardt for Secretary of Interior could happen as soon as Wednesday, April 10 or Thursday, April 11. ACT NOW and...
Statement of Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz to EPA on Redefining Waters of the U.S.
- By: Lake Worth Waterkeeper
- News
Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels (left), Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler, and Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz (right) braved icy roads...
Act Now to Save Montana’s Big Hole
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Big Hole is movie beautiful, running 155 miles from headwaters in Southwest Montana’s Beaverhead Range down the verdant Big Hole Valley, tumbling...
Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille at Risk of Hazardous Material Train Derailment
- By: Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper
- News
By Sharon Bosley, Communications Associate, Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper Lake Pend Oreille is the fifth deepest lake in the United States and one of the...
Trump’s Clean Water Act Puts Revitalization of Buffalo River at Stake
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Activists in Buffalo poured their hearts into resuscitating the Buffalo River, which was declared dead in 1967, willing it back to life. When they began...
Colorado Riverkeeper and Affiliates Play Key Role in John Wesley Powell 150th Anniversary River Expedition
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Rica Fulton, Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate 150 years ago, John Wesley Powell and his motley crew traveled into the “great...
Lawsuit Launched Over Massive Utah Oil Shale Development
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Project Threatens Endangered Species, River Flows, Climate Conservation groups today issued a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for approving...
Changes to Clean Water Act Would Threaten Idaho’s Little Lost River
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Near the edge of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, bordered on one side by the Lost River Range, the highest in Idaho, the Little Lost...
Trump’s WOTUS Puts Cape Fear at Risk
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Stocking Head Creek’s headwaters are a forest spring. Once this tributary to North Carolina’s Cape Fear River leaves that forest, however, its sources...
Trump’s WOTUS Definition Attacks the Heart of the Clean Water Act
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Trump administration is implementing its treacherous strategy to eliminate Clean Water Act protections for waters—and communities—across the country...
Tell the Cooper Administration: Hold Industrial Hog Polluters Accountable
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
For decades, North Carolina has allowed industrial hog polluters to dump massive amounts of raw hog sewage in open pits, then regularly spray it onto nearby...
New Investigation: Recent Explosion of Poultry Factory Farms in N.C. Piles Manure from 515.3M Chickens Onto Waste From 9.7M Hogs
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
As State Reviews Standards for Managing Hog Waste, It Must Take Little-Regulated Poultry Waste Into Account North Carolina, a state known for the devastating...