News & Updates
Rallying for Royal Bengal Tigers
- By: Waterkeepers Bangladesh
- News
Reposted with permission from Waterkeepers Bangladesh Blog Waterkeepers Bangladesh and Pashur River Waterkeeper honored International Tiger Day on July...
Organizations, Citizens Speak Out Against EPA’s Rollback of Toxic Water Pollution Limits
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Waterkeeper Alliance says EPA’s action to delay requirements is illegal Environmental and health organizations and concerned citizens from throughout...
Win-Win Buyout Program Prevents More Losses in NC’s Floodplain
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Co-Written by Will Hendrick, Waterkeeper Alliance Staff Attorney and North Carolina Pure Farms, Pure Waters Campaign Manager & Matthew Starr, Upper...
Investment in Infrastructure is Investment in Public Health | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
We all need clean and safe drinking water and public waterways free from sewage and other pollutants. While we do not often think about them, complex systems...
Duke Energy’s Plans for Coal Ash Dumps Threaten Indiana’s Great Rivers, Underground Water Supplies
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
The company’s plan to leave toxic waste in place will cause contamination State and national public interest groups are calling on Indiana environmental...
A Bright Future for Bhutan
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
“Where we live must be clean, safe, organized, and beautiful, for national integrity, national pride, and for our bright future. This too is nation...
Don’t Give Pipeline Companies A Free Pass | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
A month ago, we discussed how oil and gas pipeline construction can be devastating to the environment and communities and can lead to long-lasting damage...
From Xiang to Yangtze, Watchers of the Chinese Rivers
- By: Xiang River Waterkeeper
- News
By Cheng Sun, Xiang River Waterkeeper 2,295 years ago, the patriotic poet Yuan Qu committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River after being...
Stop the Fast-Tracking of Dams! | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Threats from the hydropower industry have increased in recent years and right now there are more than 30 bills in Congress that impact how dams are built...
Pollution Cannot be Political
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Maia Berlow, Advocacy Intern at Waterkeeper Alliance On June 14th, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and four...
Congress Doubles Down on Fossil Fuel Addiction | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
Emboldened by a President who denies climate change and appointed an ExxonMobil executive as our Secretary of State, Congressional leadership is planning...
Trump Breathes New Life into LNG Export in Western U.S.
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
Fossil fuel advocates have been pushing the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project for more than a decade, and after two failed attempts,...
Oyster Reef Restoration in Liaodong Peninsula
- By: Black Reef Coast Waterkeeper
- News
By Zhipeng Wang and Shengwei Zeng of Black Reef Coast Waterkeeper In December 2015, Sirui Wang, Black Reef Coast Waterkeeper and long-time environmental...
One Belt, One Road… ONE BLUE PLANET
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
“All of the pollution we force upon our rivers, is but only wounds to our civilizations and ourselves. To protect rivers, is to protect the common interests...
Kick Out The Dams!
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
This week, I returned from a trip to the beautiful country of Sweden, where I spent time with Thomas Johansson, Swedish Baltic Rivers Waterkeeper, and...
Environmental Groups Sue over Unsafe Waters in New York City
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Lax Oversight Allows City and State to Evade Health Protections, Continue Sewer Overflows of 20 Billion Gallons/Year A coalition of nine New York City,...
The Guayllabamba Waterkeeper Family of Quito, Ecuador
- By: Gary Wockner
- News
The Waterkeeper movement – all 320+ of us around the world and our staffs – likes to think of each other as a family, but perhaps nowhere is that more...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to WOTUS Withdrawal
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
NEW YORK, NY – Continuing its march toward elimination of key Clean Water Act protections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued...
The Largest Source of Toxic Water Pollution | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Every year, over 2 billion pounds of pollutants are dumped into our waterways by power plants – the largest source of toxic water pollution in our...
Pulling out of the Paris Agreement is a threat to human rights
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Maia Berlow, Advocacy Intern at Waterkeeper Alliance As I think about the different categories of rights I deeply care about — minority, women’s...
Fight for a Fairer FERC! | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Increased oil and gas production in the United States and Canada over recent years has lead to demand for new pipelines. Pipeline construction can be devastating...
Time to fight for local climate action! | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
On June 1, President Trump announced that he will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. This decision threatens to dismantle the...
Great Beer for a Great Cause
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
With a summer-long Instagram contest, the time is now to help Waterkeeper Alliance Save our Water and drink delicious beer! When you post using the hashtag...
NCGOP Wrong on Property Rights
- By: Will Hendrick
- News
This weekend, political conservatives are gathering in Wilmington, NC, for the 2017 NCGOP State Convention, where party members will consider a platform...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to President Trump’s Decision to Withdraw from Paris Agreement
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
President Trump’s decision is divorced from reality and puts the United States on the wrong side of history. NEW YORK, NY – President Trump today...
Pesticides Poisoning our Waterways | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Right ahead of Memorial Day Weekend, when so many families are heading to their favorite waterbody to kick off the summer, the House of Representatives...
“Flirting With Disaster” Film Puts Spotlight on a Looming Public Health Threat in Nogales, Arizona
- By: Blue Evening Star
- News
Blue Evening Star is a representative of Friends of the Santa Cruz River Every storm that hits Nogales, AZ puts pressure on the deteriorating, leaky sewage...
Business Runs Better on Clean Water
- By: Orange County Coastkeeper
- News
Reposted with permission from Orange County Coastkeeper Blog Coastkeeper works to safeguard Orange County’s 42 miles of coastline and protect its invaluable...
Read for the Earth: Wake up Our Love for Nature
- By: Qiantang River Waterkeeper
- News
By Mei Xue1 and Lan Xiaowen2 of Qiantang River Waterkeeper April 22nd of each year is Earth Day, a festival dedicated to the world’s environmental...
Sail, Boat, or March to Save Our Oceans
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
On six continents, Waterkeeper Alliance has over 300 Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates fighting for healthy waterways, many of those along coasts...